Princess Pang: Beauty Meets The Beast, Rock & Roll And Conquers!
Christine Natanael, Rock Scene, 1 January 1990
I GUESS THAT this is what you would call a true story of friendship and ambition. The scenario is a group of kids in their early 20s hanging out on the Lower east Side of Manhattan, creating a "scene", trying to put a cool band together and dreaming the big dream of hitting the big time and being stars.
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