Darts: Darts (Magnet)
Cliff White, NME, 19 November 1977
THEY PROBABLY won't thank me for saying so, but there's no getting around the fact that there are marked – if only coincidental – similarities between this bunch of affable loonies and the defunct Sha Na Na, the American rockanbop-shoowop showband whose retrospective compilation was reviewed in last week's NME by Bob Edmunds.
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