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Usher: Urban Expansion

Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, November 2003

David Beckham's favourite act powers ever onward with his manager-mother, his zero-carb diets, and his own personal jeweller. But what drives Usher's insomniac craving for fortune and respect? "If I stop," he tells Rob Fitzpatrick, "I'll lose."

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