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Be Bop Deluxe: City Hall, Newcastke

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 February 1978

WHEN IT'S your seventh try at an intro it gets down to saying it's your seventh try at an intro. You see. Bill Nelson coined it in one of his new song titles: 'Superenigmatix'. That was Be Bop Deluxe precisely (though how exact can ambivalence be? Aaargh already!). Quote: 'And it's getting all ecstatic 'cos it goes on automatic/When the lights go out...'

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