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Inspiral Carpets: Leeds University

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 April 2003

OF THE SO-CALLED "Holy Triumvirate" that rescued British pop in the early 1990s, Inspiral Carpets always plays third fiddle to the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. The Roses had principles, velocity and swagger, the Mondays drugs and grooves.

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