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Chas and Dave: Don't Give A Monkey's (Rockney EMC 3303) ***½

Garry Bushell, Sounds, 18 August 1979

CHAS AND Dave are a public bar on Saturday night chock-full of pissed punters blowing their greengages on rivers of alkyhol while some half-cut old codger, his lap full of fag ash, balances a brown 'n' mild on the joanna and belts thru 'Knees Up Muvva Brahn' to the mass accompaniment of everyone who ain't collapsing, chundering, going for a gypsy's, or having a knee-trembler in the corner.

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