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Zapp: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986

YOU'D EXPECT the diehards who shelled out and showed up to see Zapp, on one of London's culturally busiest weekends, to dance holes in The Odeon carpet? I certainly foresaw apeshit mayhem, but it took 'Computer Love' (a ballad ferchrissakes!) to rouse this turgid audience.

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