The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch

At first she was written off as 'posh and mad' – but that was before she made one of the best albums of the year. Now all she has to do is win over her mum …Even if you pay only the most paltry attention to contemporary music, you may well recognise ­Florence ­Leontine Mary Welch: violent-­ginger hair, kohl-rimmed eyes, a dress sense pitched somewhere between Batgirl, the Jetsons and John ­William Waterhouse's painting Lady Of Shalott.More than 700,000 people in the UK h...

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