ABBA: Waterloo (Atlantic)
Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 12 September 1974
MOST EUROPEANS would, quite rightly, give their balls to suck Slurpees at a 7-11 or grow up absurd on Yankee turf, but they don't get the chance. So lots of them do it by proxy, synthesizing what they hear (and what they think they hear) by way of records and radio.
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