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For Hire: The Gun Club

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 7 May 1983

Last year Jeffery Lee Pierce was a chronic depressive and a shithead full of venom. But since then he's sorted out his personal life, and – professionally – completely remodelled the spookabilly punk of the Gun Club. Richard Cook ventured into a Norfolk swamp to face up to the Gunman.

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