Cheap Trick
Max Bell, NME, 8 April 1978
Meet Tricky Ricky and the Denim Deliverers. Ricky Neilson and CHEAP TRICK, to be more precise, who're currently wowing the Heavy Metal Hordes and MAX BELL (who naturally feels there's a bit more to it than that...)
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