Gina X: Deutscher Girl
Betty Page, Sounds, 20 February 1982
1978 WAS a good year for the poses, for nascent pre-Romantic Bowieisms and embryonic electro-disco; halcyon pre-Blitzian days when everyone dressed up like toy soldiers and got heavily into the Rich Kids (snigger). During this time, one Gina Kikoine was busy crafting a scintillating, sophisticated, slinky synthi album entitled Nice Mover and getting her ACs and DCs well and truly crossed over.
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