Pop 'til you're dropped: The Hoosiers' major label woe

How tight is the margin beween being the toast of your record company and being a failure? One chart place, as the Hoosiers found out to their cost. Angus Batey hears their tale'Things seem so obvious now," says Irwin Sparkes, the singer and guitarist of the Hoosiers, "but back at the beginning we thought we just needed to be this really solid live band, and have a following. We were so green – we thought, 'Well, we'll write a pop song, and that's it, isn't it?'""I imagine, in the glory days...

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