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The Divine Comedy: Promenade

Stuart Maconie, Select, May 1994

ROCK MUSIC likes to think of itself as radical, revolutionary and scarily anarchistic, but really it's so arse-clenchingly conservative it must leave Portillo and Lilley (the names are plucked from the air) red-cheeked with pleasure.

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