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Martin Lilleker: Beats Working For A Living – Sheffield Popular Music 1973-1984 (Juma)

Rob Young, The Wire, July 2005

PRACTICALLY EVERY city in Britain has a roster of musical hod carriers with appalling names. This exhaustive history of Sheffield's music scene is crammed with reams of monikers that would keep The Wire's Dodgy Group Names chart fuelled up for months on end: Sexual Lotion, The Uncalled 4 Band, Quite Unnerving, A Major European Band...

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