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Living Colour: Astoria, London

Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 17 September 1988

"IF YOU'RE black, it's OK to be two things, a crooner in a fairisle sweater or a bad ass B-Boy... look at the history of rock music, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, y'know, the real innovators of rock..."

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