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Tricky: It's a Tricky World

Andrew Smith, The Face, April 1996

Tricky was a poor petty criminal who grew up to be acclaimed as a musical genius. Martina came from a wealthy family, and left her public school to sing with him. As Tricky launches his new project — collaborations with Björk, Terry Hall, Alison Moyet and ex-Stereo MC Cath Coffey under the name Nearly God — he and Martina talk to THE FACE about their years of living dangerously

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