Cheap Trick, Fundamental Ache And The Concept Of Divine Effort
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 10 February 1979
SINCE THE onset of 'serious' rock criticism in the late Sixties there seems, for the most part, to have been a parting of the ways between the scribes' staple diet and what the fans on the street propel towards platinum status.
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