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Jane's Addiction: Strays

Marc Weingarten, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2003

A DECADE AGO, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell was one of rock's beloved oddballs. With his bodices and feather boas, his neo-pagan notions of earth worship and earthly pleasures, and his wigged-out jive talk, Farrell cut an appealingly flamboyant figure during the all-too-earnest alt-rock era of the late '80s and early '90s.

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