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The Clash: Up The Hill Backwards

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982

HALF PAST ONE on Portobello Road. Past the chippy, opposite the bookshop, within earshot of a man with an amplified mouth-harp honking and scything through Little Walter's greatest hits.

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