Lindisfarne: Dance Your Life Away
Len Brown, NME, 13 December 1986
IT'S PHENOMENAL. Soon a whole city will be swinging together. Every Christmas, like clockwork, a bunch of hairy, balding middle-aged men take the stage and are hailed as HEROES. I just can't get my head round it; far too often I've been in the audience.
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