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The Stranglers: The Stranglers Live (X Cert)

Garry Bushell, Sounds, 24 February 1979

A CHILL WIND blows down the grimy alley, hidden in shadows and overpacked with freshly stinking mounds of rotting vegetation left over from the neighbouring daytime market stalls. Susan shivers and strains her ears for noises which her early morning imagination construes as the mutterings of armies of massive mutant rats but which are clearly the distant footsteps of boozy men getting louder and louder.

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