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Tempus Fugit: Back Of My Hand
by Nic Jones
If politics is the new rock 'n' roll, then this reissue is proof that it was once the new turgid fusion with a side order of well-meaning vocals. British Prime Minister Tony Blair spent some of his college days fronting a happily unsuccessful rock band, and this release reveals that Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary in the Blair government, spent some time playing bass in and writing usually Marxist-Leninist lyrics for Tempus Fugit, a fledgling jazz-rock band whose fearsome virtuosity was ...
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