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Wire: Three Men & a beat

Mark Sinker, The Wire, November 1991

Wire's reputation — as the foremost quartet of art-formalists to have come out of punk — has shrouded them in enigma. Now a three-piece, with a tell-all biography and a name-change that isn't a name-change to talk to interviewers about, Mark Sinker finds them revitalised, chatty and, er, shrouded in enigma...

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