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Television: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 June 2002

IT WAS SOMETHING of a coup to recruit Television for David Bowie's Meltdown festival. The glacial new-wavers made rock history with their 1977 debut album, Marquee Moon, and although they have done nothing to match it since, their aura of chilly reclusiveness has kept their legend alive.

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