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The Communards: Royal Court, Liverpool

Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 29 November 1986

YOU KNEW as soon as you saw the big vases of flowers on each side of the stage that this wasn't going to be a usual, macho-strut pop show. Not that little Jimmy Somerville doesn't preen and tease as much as anyone, of course.

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