Gary Numan: I, Assassin/Captain Sensible: Women And Captains First
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 11 September 1982
A PAIR OF FUNSTERS from the charts: Sensible in his new role as the nation's favourite lovable loony and Numan in his old one as the slug who sold the world.
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