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Gregory Isaacs: Rainbow Theatre, London

Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980

TAKE ANY moderate gathering of citizens intent on peaceable pursuit and out comes the Babylon in force. I am growing altogether more and more disgruntled when arriving at concerts, football matches, carnivals, and the like to be confronted with these strutting and sneering, self important little men hiding behind megaphones and uniforms, herding me in the direction of a queue my own common sense would otherwise have told me to join.

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