Before and after the Fall
Mat Snow, NME, 3 November 1984
"I THINK the difference is in the mechanical sounds of our time. Like the sound of the airplane in the '40s was a rmoooooaaaahhhhhhhh sound and Sinatra and those people sang with those sort of overtones.
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