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Jon Savage, Sounds, 10 December 1977
ENGLAND CAN be depressing to the point of insanity...grey oozing days for months on end...rows of mean streets, pinched people...clausterphobic scrapyard vistas of country turned rotten by centuries of industrialisation...
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