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PiL: This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get (Virgin)

Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, July 1984

JUST when you thought you had the bugger pinned down as a spent force, a wasted opportunist and black and white photocopy of a colourful historical figure, along comes this new thing which upsets everything and makes us have to start all over again. Damnation!

Total word count of piece: 436

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