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Robyn Hitchcock: Black Snake Diamond Role (Armageddon)

Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981

THOSE OF us who never could see all that much of worth in Syd Barrett's music, either solo or with that group he used to be with, will be hard pushed to understand why anyone should want to set themselves up as heir apparent to whatever "throne" he was supposed to have parked his arse on.

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