Mel & Kim: Shop Girls Of The World Unite!
Paolo Hewitt, NME, 28 February 1987
Out of the shops and into the charts come MEL AND KIM – friendly, forthright, but kept strictly in line by their manager. PAOLO HEWITT investigates Shopgirl Culture.
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