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Turbonegro: Clowns Of Evil Go on the Rampage

Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, May 2005

THE STREETS OF Hamburg are awash with piss and broken bottles and cock-eyed sailor boys with queer intentions. A two thousand-strong army of Turbonegro fans – known as the Turbojugend – all decked out in standard-issue denim jackets have descended on the Reeperbahn for the second World Turbojugend Day, little more than a two-day orgy of drinking, drugging and male bonding. Beatlemania was never like this!

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