"The scope and range of this debut album is immense. It may take a while for its charms to unfold. but if you're swayed by intelligent, literate, twisted rock, you'll be seduced by Showbiz within hours."
(Rock Sound, 1999)
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Now for the world
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo
Wednesday, 15th September 1999
They began in Teignmouth - but rock stardom beckons
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(MUSE) Birth of a supergroup
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo
Thursday 18th February 1999
"THIS time next year they could just have the world at their feet."
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"The NME describes them as: "Three Disney-sweet doe-eyed Devon kids and their school band - devoted young pups determined not to lose their grip on their schoolboy dreams of rock Valhalla."
(Torbay Express and South Devon Echo
Thursday 18th February 1999)
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It was awesome (Muse at the Brighton Centre)
Portsmouth Evening News
Friday, 12th December 2003
'It's time for something biblical...' roared Muse singer Matt Bellamy and this was indeed a gig played with almost religious fervour.
https://t.co/Y2Pgpl0Q6U
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"You could say that my starting point as a rock musician can be traced back entirely to that Cream album I heard that day. The fact that I still insist on a three-piece band format today is likely a direct result of that early influence."
Matthew Bellamy (Rockin' On Japan, 2012)
"Absolution will thrill existing fans, and hopefully generate a legion of new ones.
Truly outstanding."
(Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 20 September 2003)
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"They make a glorious sound - when they're loud its a delicious, invigorating, heartily satisfying racket, and when they're quiet, it's with a hypnotic snake-like intent."
(Yorkshire Evening Post - September 2003)
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Muse Not To Amuse
Sunday Tribune
Sunday 26th August 2001
Muse have genuinely become a high profile rock band. But they don't know it. Oh, and they're broke too, moans frontman Matt Bellamy.
https://t.co/VCb8bzc3ZF
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