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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: Live in Los Angeles

Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 13 November 1982

FLASH – AAAAH! Saviour of the Universe. Saviour of my sanity, anyway. "The Message" shines out from amongst the New Musik murk they play out here on the trendy stations like a fluorescent "I Love New York" bumper sticker on a dark night.

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