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The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)

uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968

THIS SECOND Immediate album by the Nice, is not only a vast improvement on their first, but a major breakthrough in pop group experimentation. In fact the phrase' "pop group" becomes obsolete in view of their bold and imaginative crossbreeding of classical, jazz and rock and roll music.

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