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Metallica: Taking the Mick

Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990

He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, Haircut 100, Musical Youth — but that's all in the past, and now BIG MICK HUGHES is resident knob twiddler for (gasp) METALLICA! He's also got some great stories to tell, about life on the road in the early days of Hardcore punk, about his first meeting with Judas Priest — and STEFFAN CHIRAZI picked out all the clean ones. Boo...

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