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The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You (Rolling Stones Records) 

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981

HERE WE are! The Rolling Stones have made another album! Depeche Mode and Soft Cell join more established names like Duran Duran at the top of the charts the trumpet and timbales become the totems of the newest wave of cultural imperialism, Stimulin look to be next month's Blue Rondo and the Rolling Stones pop up again, weathered and steering, going through their motions as if it's all they want or know how to do.

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