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Judas Priest: Killing Machine

Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978

THE LEAD SINGER sweats redly, tuffness of the strategic stud decorations unable to blind the look of uncertainty in his eye for the camera as he 'struts his stuff', the guitarists, bassist and drums pout and grimace so baad on the back sleeve as the needle prepares to violate the virgin vinyl of CBS 831355 and (grunts and groans off camera)..."You dish the hot stuff up/But you keep me waiting/So I play it dirty/Til your body's breaking/We got to make love/The time is right"....

Total word count of piece: 860


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