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Boney M: By The Rivers (well…sands, beaches, coves, quays and bays) Of Babbacombe

Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 8 July 1978

TORBAY OR NOT Torbay – that is the question! I am standing at the barrier of Platform 2, Paddington, one chilly Saturday morning expressing Brandoesque mutterance of this sentiment whilst scouring the station for one whom answers to the description of a WEA liaison officer named Don Stone and/or a quartet of high-stepping black pop stars, three women and one man, called Boney M; observing the hypocrites mingle with the good people we meet.

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