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Goodbye Sham 69

Garry Bushell, Sounds, 7 July 1979

"WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM! WE WANT SHUM!" Friday night in Glasgow The Apollo is packed to capacity and if you want understatements the atmosphere is electric. The Valves finished their set over half an hour ago and now 3,500 eager fidgety faces are glued to the stage as great tidal waves of excitement swell up in anxious anticipation: "SHUM! SHUM! SHUM! SHUM!"

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