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‘Home Runs, No Bunts’ — Solar Power On The Rise

Gene Sculatti, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1981

Does the Stones' latest album fail to start you up? Has your affair cooled with the New Romantics? You say you didn't grow up to be a cowboy? It's OK. Something of value is happening. It's the new black pop. It's growing in the street, right up through the concrete, right here in Surf City.

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