Chuck Brown: Take The Money And Go-Go
Sean O'Hagan, NME, 4 April 1987
CHUCK BROWN'S in Britain to stick up the go-go scene with his pioneering blast of bum-pin'. But as SEAN O'HAGAN finds out, he didn't get where he is today just by standin' on stage.
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