Jimmy Cliff: Skanking In Exile
Bob Woffinden, NME, 7 September 1974
I'VE BEEN living in Stoke Newington for about six months. The area's one of the most cosmopolitan in North-East London, with an immigrant population that moved in on the receding Anglo-Saxon tide, and that now gives the area its character people dump their rubbish collectively on street corners, that sort of thing.
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