Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca)
Danny Baker, NME, 19 May 1979
I'M SITTING here, the music is actionably loud, the bass is hitting right into the back of my neck, squarebashing on the spot, and – help – once I even started up with an invisible rhythm guitar.
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