Big Audio Dynamite
Chris Salewicz, Q, October 1986
IN JULY last year Big Audio Dynamite were at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, recording their first album with Mick Jones producing. Early in the evening of July 16, Jones was putting down the vocal for a song that would be the first tune on the LP, Medicine Show; when released as a single the next spring the number would become a Top 30 hit.
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