Joe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 October 1979
HURRAH'S IS, for the moment, the in-crowd club in New York's rock circle, having taken over the limelight from CBGB and Max's. Those who seem to know claim that soon the hip place to go will be a dive known as Heat, but for this evening Hurrah's is it.
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