Joy Division: Take No Prisoners, Leave No Clues
Paul Rambali, NME, 11 August 1979
LET ME DRAW BACK the curtains on a probably wet and no doubt freezing night last winter. A mid-week night of no special significance, save that Joy Division had come marching into town.
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