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Article: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ; Pop ++ Brixton Academy LONDON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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My Chemical Romance speak to a constituency that few over 25 in
Britain can understand. Singer Gerard Way sings of redemption from
depression and death, and a black-garbed teenage tribe who would
once have been goths, but are now a more general phenomenon, listen
intently.
My Chemical Romance have leapt to prominence with third album The
Black Parade, a nakedly ambitious concept album about a teenage
cancer patient, accompanied by Way interviews copiously confessing
to suicidal depression. Adults who wonder what US teenagers have to
whine about underestimate American adolescence's straitjacket