Burning Spear Debuts At The Roxy
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 October 1980
THE WEST COAST debut of Burning Spear before a packed house at the Roxy Tuesday night may not have matched the excitement of Bob Marley & the Wailers' 1975 stand at the West Hollywood club but it came reasonably close.
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