Big Audio Dynamite: Haçienda, Manchester
Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986
A BACKING tape is switched on, four billion people surge towards the stage and a recorded voice asks "Do you like music?" Another recorded voice blips "Leave It Out — This Is Big Audio Dynamite", and here they come... keyboard player Don Letts with dreadlocks a-swinging as he belts out the first notes of 'The Medicine Show' (their next single) on his cowbells... Mick Jones (ex-guitarist with the Clash — "seminal" punk rock group of old) sporting a white housewife's coat and dodgy sideburns and not looking very young at all.
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