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Makes me nostalgic for an era when music was more than a click away: Teenage Superstars reviewed

13 February 2021

9:00 AM

13 February 2021

9:00 AM

Teenage Superstars

Sky Arts

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In Teenage Superstars, a long and slightly exhausting documentary about the Scottish indie scene of the 1980s and ’90s, there was a moment when a man revelling in the name of Stephen Pastel — his real name is Stephen McRobbie, and he must be pushing 60 now — was described as ‘the mayor of the Scottish underground’.

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