MC5/Stooges: Panic in Detroit
Mick Farren, NME, 14 December 1974
THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this before, and in the end it's alt come to nothing. We've also heard tales that everyone of that celebrated crew should have been dead long since, but they're still alive and lacking. It seems as though no amount of self destruction can keep these boys down.
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