National Health: Of Queues And Cures (Charly)
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 May 1979
THE HEALTHY Ones have been through a whole ring-cycle of changes in recent times, with Dave Stewart out and Alan Gowen back in again. We fans of the group have been completely flummoxed, especially by the jobs-creation off-shoots, like Gilgamesh, Soft Heap and Uriah Mesh.
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