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Massive Attack: Unique 3

Craig McLean, The Face, December 1995

With sales of Protection approaching a million. Massive Attack are going seriously global. They have recorded a love song with Madonna, Tina Turner wants to cover 'Unfinished Sympathy' and they've turned their once-stilted stage show into a live triumph. Yet at home it is those who came after them — Tricky, Portishead and trip hop — that hold the headlines. And now they've got the power, Massive Attack have some scores to settle

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