Flying Lizards: TV
Penny Valentine, Creem, May 1980
IT LOOKS LIKE the Flying Lizards are going to have their third hit in a row with 'TV'. Out a few days and it already sounds familiar and - more surprisingly - I'm singing it. Which may not sound particularly odd except that the Lizards are not the kind of organization set up to make you respond in quite that way.
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