Burning Spear: The Spear Guide to Higher Stepping
Vivien Goldman, NME, 28 February 1981
Burning Spear on tour. In the dressing room at the Birmingham Odeon, certain thick-set members of Spear's Burning Band mutter that they want to kill me for criticising them in a live review; I hope they're joking.
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