Penetration: Anarchy In County Durham
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 June 1977
MICK JONES of the Clash, leading philosophers of the New Wave, has said that he couldn't play but for the vacuum-pack pressures of the tower block he grew up in. Everything about the Movement so far has been unremittingly urban. The repression, pollution and desperation of city life 1977.
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