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Ground Control To Major Labels

John Harris, New Musical Express, 30 January 1993

Unattached, paranoid, fancy working your ass off and seeing five gigs a night, listening to 400 tapes a week and shouldering the blame when the career of the last band you signed goes down the pan? Welcome to the wonderful world of A&R, the alternative music universe where Family Gotown can be taken as a serious contender for being the future of rock'n'roll. JOHN HARRIS talks to some of its leading lights to discover what the hell is wrong with these people.

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