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Jane's Addiction: The Shocking Truth

Paul Elliott, Vox, June 1991

"Okay, so we do music from time to time. But we can control it..." Jane's Addiction have cleaned up their habits of late, but just as kind, understanding record company Warner Brothers realised that the band was no mere pile of junk, lead singer Perry Farrell took an overdose of cynicism and announced the group's demise. Can a Guns N' Roses support slot save them? and if not, wonders Paul Elliott, what will Jane be taking now...

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