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The Jesus & Mary Chain: Honey's Dead (blanco y negro)

Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992

WOULD WE have thought, seven long years ago, when news of The Jesus And Mary Chain swept the land like an ugly rumour, that we'd be here doing this now? Can the men who treated polytechnic audiences with contempt, sat down mid-song on The Old Grey Whistle Test, played 15 minute sets and generally instigated riots wherever they went, really have become grand old men of rock?

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