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The Jam: Direction Reaction Creation

Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, May 1997

IF WE ACCEPT pop as the religion of youth in the last quarter of the 20th century, then there can be no more striking example of musical fundamentalism than The Jam. Either you were on the bus, or stranded at the depot.

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