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Judas Priest: Killing Machine

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978

"YOU ARE not in touch with the modern world, sucker," hissed the obnoxious little voice in my ear. 'Today's kids don't give a flying one about punk or anything that's happened since punk. They're not interested in reggae, disco, balding Continentals with notions about art and" – twisting the knife quite unnecessarily, I thought – "they definitely don't care about R&B."

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