Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Ludwigshafen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Paul Morley, NME, 2 June 1979
IMAGINE THE tattiest curtain material, maybe the type your gran's got covering an old sofa; a couple of awful patterns flung together to make a huge oddly homely stage curtain. Now you know how it looks.
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