Chelsea: Spring Time for October
Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 3 April 1982
I DON'T know why it had to happen to Chelsea. Clawed by the press, mauled by the dim-witted forces of fashion, the four-man disaster team served as a dreadful warning to other bands: a warning of things that can go wrong!
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