MCA Records: Strip Mining
Simon Witter, NME, 28 January 1989
OVER THE PAST 12 months Universal City the five square miles of North Hollywood dominated by the MCA/Universal studios has yielded a crop of artists, writers and producers so successful that their music has been given a generic title, The Sunset Sound, a tribute to the Sunset Strip clubs that play the music.
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