Attila the Stockbroker: The Ultimate Hooligan
Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 19 June 1982
STANDING against the kind of pastel sea and sky only seen in Turner paintings and south-coast resorts is a dog-eared set of leather and denim containing the world's unlikeliest poet.
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