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Last Hee-Haw from the Boys Next Door

Clinton Walker, RAM, February 1980

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR'S career has been a turbulent one. In just two short years, they've recorded for three different labels: Suicide, Mushroom and now Missing Link; turned down potentially lucrative offers; earnt not even the contempt but the ridicule of fellow musicians; been ignored by radio, shunned by Countdown, barred from Bombay Rock, beaten up, arrested several times, and turned in some of the most miserable excuses for performances I've ever witnessed.

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