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Who Put the Thump?: The Deep Footprints of the Dave Clark 5

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, July 2019

THE SONGS OF the Dave Clark 5 were louder, denser, and more raucous than anything else on Top 40 radio, so echo-and-reverb-laden that even a brand-new Epic 45 sounded as though it'd been through the wringer before you even slapped it on your little plastic turntable.

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