Gang of Four: Dialectics Meet Disco
Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 26 May 1979
This is the year of the second coming of British art-rock – although the new art-rockers won't admit it. MARY HARRON strips away the modish veils of Marxist structuralist jargon and holds the Gang Of Four up to the light.
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