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Simple Minds: Sheffield Arena

Simon Warner, The Guardian, 23 March 1995

IT'S OFFICIAL. Rock, that huge, lumbering beast we thought had been exiled to the sports stadiums of the American Midwest, is alive and almost kicking, returning, not to wreak a terrible revenge, but merely to fill the hearts of ordinary fans with pleasure and a yearning for pop values of yesteryear.

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