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David Sylvian: Life in the Beehive

Richard Cook, The Wire, November 1989

DAVID SYLVIAN sits back and thinks about the work. "There are evident failures and occasional successes, but my opinion of the work doesn't change much. When I've finished something I know if it's a success or not. It remains. You can hear if it's incomplete, or if it missed the mark completely. There are quite a few things like that. It's not very satisfying to go back and listen to it and think, well, this is the past eight years of my life."

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