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James: Seven — Booth's New Gold Dream: Are James mutating into Simple Minds?

David Cavanagh, Select, March 1992

OF COURSE, there's more to life than Indie music — there's getting out and meeting people: there's having money: there's not having to submit yourself to drug tests In Manchester hospitals for a tenner a day to pay the rent: there's standing in front of 30,000 fans, asking them if they're feeling good and being hit by a huge vaporous air pocket as they all inform you that they are: there's marrying Patsy Kensit and stuff.

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