Cock Sparrer: Strictly For The Birds
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 November 1982
COCK SPARRER'S come-back couldn't have been better timed. Just as the street rock scene was getting staler than a Marie Celeste bread roll, the original East End 'ooligan punksters have blasted back with the immensely moving diamond hard tribute to our native land, 'England Belongs To Me'.
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