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Tom Waits: London, Victoria Apollo

Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 28 March 1981

TOM WAITS, sad to say, has now joined the illustrious pantheon of artistes whose performances have driven me to sleep. Sad, because this is the first time it's happened involuntarily, the first time I haven't actually wanted to go to sleep. And it's all down to the myth.

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