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Finally... The World Is Ready For Mick Brown's History Of Hype

Mick Brown, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IF YOU'RE looking for a definition, forget it. The word is an abbreviation of 'hyperbole', which the dictionary defines as 'rhetorical exaggeration', but in the music business rhetorical exaggeration is the currency of the realm.

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