"We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. And they're still the biggest band in the world, so we failed. We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean? That's all we did."
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Interview by Lindsay Baker, "The Unsinkable Ian Brown", The Guardian, 2 February 2002, retrieved 2011-08-13
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