Be-Bop Deluxe: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Miles, NME, 9 October 1976
AT £2.50 a ticket I was expecting to hear the words, particularly from a group whose lyrics are so important, but the thousand or so of us sitting in the circle were all victims of the curse of the Odeon – the place is a cinema after all – and the acoustics sucked.
Total word count of piece: 410
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