Jimmy Pursey: The Cockney Kid Is Innocent
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 December 1980
So who are you gonna be today then, Jim? The new Messiah or the little boy lost? Robespierre or the Urban Spaceman? An all-round good bloke or just a pain in the arse?
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