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Sisters Of Mercy: Be Advised – They're No Angels

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 March 1991

BACK IN THE early '80s Tony James, former bassist of Generation X, was plotting his next assault on the pop world: a controversial sex-drugs-and-outrage spectacle called Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a mega-hyped band that would briefly glow bright red with 'Love Missile F1-11' and then come crashing back to earth becoming, in retrospect, one of the most loathed bands in British pop history.

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