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Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 12 March 1986

"A lot of people are going to hate Sigue Sigue Sputnik," says their bass player and boss Tony James. "Because we're not into being miserable and we're not interested in music." But what they are interested in, as Tom Hibbert discovers, is exploding helicopters, very big guns, films with "gratuitous sex" in them and films with Olivia Newton John (?) in them...

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