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The Legend!

Everett True is a pseudonym for The Legend!

The Legend! is Everett True under another name.

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The Mekons: Living Room, London

Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 6 October 1984

IS THIS the way to say goodbye? The last night at the Living Room, proprietor moving on to greater things, hopefully (water-bombs in Tottenham?!?), the ...

The June Brides: There Are Eight Million Stories... (Pink)

Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 21 September 1985

JUNES BUSTING OUT ALL OVER ...

Primal Scream: St. Paul's Arts Centre, Oxford

Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986

MORE MOMENTS to cherish: Primal Scream live in Oxford. The tremors and treasures of vulnerability; waking up and realising that life isn't all excitement and ...

China Crisis: What Price Paradise (Virgin)

Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 29 November 1986

CHINA CRISIS are a polite band. Worried about jagged edges, loose chords and jarring vocals, they airbrush their songs with a vapid wash which makes ...

The Membranes: Love and Fury for Export

Report and Interview by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 10 January 1987

With the multinational dross-spreaders and the candyfloss radio stations celebrating another year with their boot-heel on the throat of popular music, THE MEMBRANES — godfathers ...

Wire: The Ideal Copy (Mute)

Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987

THE QUESTION is: should there really be a question at all? Many people hold no truck with reformations; more often than not they tarnish precious ...

Paul Haig: European Sun (Les Disques Du Crepuscule LP/CD)

Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 13 February 1988

PAUL HAIG has always been an annoying blur across the face of post-modernist consumer pop music. Splitting up one of the finest Morley-era guitar groups ...

Bastard Kestrel, The Shamen: The Shamen, Bastard Kestrel: Notre Dame Hall, London

Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 7 May 1988

HALF-SPEEDO half chuck-it-on-the-floor-jump-up-and-down-scarily-and-hope-that-something-happens, these Bastard Kestrels are the wedgeheads' dream answer to Cricklewood Broadway's grim surrounds: four youths down the local disco with but an ...

Rush: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 14 May 1988

RUSH ARE the present-day equivalent of Woking's own, the Jam. Sounds 'Readers' Poll Winners 1979, the very same year that our fave floppy-fringed trio walked ...

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