Generation X/The Lurkers: The Marquee, London
Chris Salewicz, NME, 30 July 1977
YOU KNOW THAT immense sense of relief that hits you when you get through the one album in every twenty or so that you might score which has no turkey-like qualities about it whatsoever? (Er, Chris most folks can't afford to go buying duff albums Ed.)
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