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Joe Ely: The Venue, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 1 June 1981

AMONG AN older generation alienated by the bleak and joyless fare offered up by so much of the British rock music that purports to be "contemporary" there is clearly a yearning for rock which embodies the virtues the music originally and most effectively expressed.

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