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WAITIN' FOR A SUPERMAN — NME's Keith Cameron meets Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne in early 1996. Plus Uncut's Paul Lester talks to Coyne about 1999's psych-pop masterpiece The Soft Bulletin and Tom Doyle discusses 2010's Embryonic with feted Lips producer Dave Fridmann…
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