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Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw (Warner Bros.)

Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 13 May 1982

MARSHALL CRENSHAW'S rock & roll has the kind of crafty simplicity that has to be called classic. Like the Everly Brothers and the early Beatles, he works within a relatively small territory and gains the whole world he's after — that is, the complete attention of anyone who believes that rock & roll can perform magic on himself or herself.

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