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Elbow: Build A Rocket Boys!

Jim Irvin, The Word, March 2011

IT'S THREE AND A HALF MINUTES into Build A Rocket Boys, and Elbow are sounding like a band. And that band is Genesis, circa 1973, as Craig Potter plays a tweety organ part for 'The Birds' and the drums get frisky.

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