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Kevin Coyne: Babble, Oval House, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 24 August 1979

HAVING ALREADY seen Babble banned from one London theatre as the result of a sensationalist and grossly misrepresentative newspaper story, Kevin Coyne found it necessary to preface this performance with an explanation that it was not the history of Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, nor a glorification of child murderers.

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