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Black Flag in the California Scum

Barney Hoskyns, NME, 20 November 1982

WHEN BLACK FLAG came to England last winter, they felt more than the ice and snow – they felt the cold studs on leather jackets, the cold masks of punk conformity, the cold pallor of decay.

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