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The Specials: English Music Scene Like a 'Ghost Town'

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 August 1981

This town coming like a ghost town...
Bands won't play no more —
Too much fighting on the dance floor...
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
...No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more, people getting angry.
— from the Specials' 'Ghost Town'

Total word count of piece: 520

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