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The Mavericks: Hammersmith Palais, London - Let's do the timewarp

Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 3 December 1999

THERE'S A NEW Best of the Mavericks compilation launched to commemorate the "first decade of Maverick music", which prompts the alarming thought that they may be planning a second, or even a third. The group have enjoyed some big hits in Britain, notably last year's single 'Dance the Night Away', and they even managed to fill the Albert Hall for six nights, but a quick trot through the Best Of album reaffirms that they'll always be a Florida covers band who got lucky.

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