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Dyan Diamond

Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 September 1978

HUSTLE MINUS hype, really. Still, it could only happen in Hollywood, that's for sure. Where else but in dream-machine country could a 16-year-old girl with a garage full of self-written film scripts find herself with an 800,000 dollar recording contract and a backing group full of gun-toting ex-Chuck Berry/Lou Reed/ J. Geils sidemen who look like nothing so much as psychopathic longshoremen?

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