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Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 24 September 1983

READING THE music papers in mid-'76, I'd suspected that the touted wave of punk groups resembled nothing so extraordinary as a cross between zealous youth club rock'n'roll and the Pink Fairies (until a boot from The Damned set the record straight).

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