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August Darnell Gets Even With Everybody (For Forcing Him To Make Race Music & Other Sins)

Iman Lababedi, Creem, December 1982

ON A hot Wednesday evening I'm playing flick-yer-bic with the dial on my television, you know: flick — Three's Company — flick — Masterpiece Theatre — flick — Merv Griffin flick — Hill Street… back-up a minute. What's Merv saying?

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