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Graham Parker and The Rumour: Live in Belfast

Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 10 March 1979

GRAHAM PARKER hasn't changed much – the small guy with the high forehead sporting an Oxfam jacket, T-shirt, drainpipes and tinted specs – but his set has, half of it coming from Squeezing Out Sparks. He's still writing furious, desirous and angry love songs and sometimes they are very good indeed.

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