I Find Missing Persons
John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1983
THE GERM OF THE union that would one day become countless hundreds of thousands of fans' favorite new New Wavoid attraction of 1983 wriggled into being one afternoon in the late '70s when a curvaceous cutie called Dale strutted onto a soundstage somewhere in America to say howdy to her old buddy Frank Zappa.
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