Blue Angel: Blue Angel
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, February 1981
FOR A FEW YEARS, roughly coinciding with the campaign and administration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, rock 'n' roll was the music of an era on the brink of eager surrender.
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