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High and Mighty: The irresistible rise of Stereo MCs

Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 6 February 1993

Are they Prince times six? A Sly & The Family Stone for the Nineties? The best "new" dance band in Britain? ANDREW SMITH flies to New York to meet STEREO MCS, charts their rise to sampladelic fame and discovers that goateed singer, ROB BIRCH, and shinehead DJ, NICK "THE HEAD" HALLAM, are the perfect couple.

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