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The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Now That's Blood Sugar Sex Magic!

Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 September 1991

After a long series of wrangles with their former record company EMI, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are back! They're back with a new Rick Rubin-produced LP (Blood Sugar Sex Magic), a new label (Warner Bros), a new 'relaxed '70s glow' to their music and a more mellow attitude. That is, they were feeling mellow before STEFFAN CHIRAZI met 'em at mainman ANTHONY KIEDIS' Hollywood home and started dragging out the details of the past year's traumas — and then the knives were really unsheathed...

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