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POP Magazine #22

Paul Heaton:
It's Happy Hour Again

January 1997

By Jan Gradvall
Translation by L. Fischer

It's not easy to pin down a band that combines the most bitter lyrics of northern England with the sweetest melodies of northern Europe.