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Prefab Sprout: Protest Songs (Kitchenware LP/Cassette/CD)

Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 24 June 1989

THIS SPRING, I spent a very pleasant afternoon in a bar with Paddy McAloon and, inevitably, the conversation got around to Protest Songs, the Sprouts' 'Black Album'; the legendary lost album, speedily recorded soon after the release of '85's Steve McQueen and intended as a fans-only giveaway.

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