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Blue Oyster Cult: Mirrors

Max Bell, New Musical Express, 7 July 1979

DEMOCRACY IS A wonderful thing in theory, even if the practice is not always assured of success. And that self-same philosophical trait is a rare commodity, particularly in rock bands, where the distribution of talents is all too often weighted in favour of some hopeful spark whose eventual muse is likely to become satured before use and strained by time.

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