Ministry: Ministry of Offence
Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 10 July 1982
THE AIRPORT at Minneapolis is surprisingly big, considering the town itself is hidden away up towards Canada in the big blank heart of the mid-West. Big, brand new, strip lights and glass but...no people.
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