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Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 2 June 1979

PERSONS FAMILIAR with Nick Lowe in his recent incarnation as cynical-old-Basher, the man who'll steal any lick that isn't nailed down, disguise himself as anything on earth to make a buck and ally himself with unsavoury people like Jake Riviera and Elvis Costello in order to form vicious, self-congratulatory little cliques… boy, are they in for a shock or what?

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