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The Long Ryders: Lock 17, London

Andrew Mueller, The Independent, 5 July 2004

THE LONG RYDERS enter to a tape of the theme tune from The Magnificent Seven, and begin their set with a cover of the Byrds' 'So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star'. It can only be wished that all rock reunions were suffused with this much cheerful self-deprecation.

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