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Living Colour: The Marquee, London

Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 September 1990

ACTUALLY, Living Colour are quite frequently exhilarating. I mean, two days previously they'd cheered up an otherwise dismal early Reading Sunday. But that was just your minor frisson of delight, just the odd tap of the toes, and compared to most of the bands around them Mr Marvel And His World-Famous Troupe Of Unicycling Whistling Gerbils, or somesuch, would have looked like the future of rock'n'roll.

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