Kid Creole & The Coconuts
Geoffrey Himes, Musician, October 1981
Urban time warps and geomusical quantum leaps later, Kid Creole and his pal Sugar-Coated are washed up on a sandy Island with only their wits and zoot suits to impress dance-crazed natives.
Total word count of piece: 2617
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