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Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band (MCA — Import from Virgin)

Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

BOSTON (OR should I say Bosstown?) Massachusetts is also undergoing a Modern World Revival. Former inmates like Aerosmith, J. Geils and even the Modern Lovers have struck gold in varying degrees, but a new flank is armed and waiting in the wings: names like DMZ, the Real Kids, Thundertrain and, one of the longest paid-up members, the Boom Boom Band.

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