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Danny Baker went to bury Public Image but came back to praise them

Danny Baker, Smash Hits, 26 July 1979

 

AT THE point of my meeting with Public Image Ltd I was less than a fan. I considered them a dirge, a racket, a puffed up pack of non-starters cruising on praise dribbled by those too scared to decry the king's new clothes. I jumped at the chance of locking jaws and exposing their pose.

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