Gang of Four: Irving Plaza, New York NY
Jason Gross, Harp, 17 May 2005
IN 1977, A bunch of British university students formed a band, poignantly deciding to take the name of a group of disgraced communist leaders accused of undermining China's Cultural Revolution.
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