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Junior Murvin: Steal Away With Success

Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 22 November 1976

JUNIOR MURVIN’S ‘Police And Thieves’, currently bubbling under the chart and selling up to 1,000 copies a day some five months after its release, a positively majestic single, one of those magic moments of vinyl history where all the heavenly planets controlling every element of a single collide in a shower of sparkling serenade.

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