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Public Image Limited: The Flowers Of Romance (Virgin)

Jon Savage, Face, The, April 1981

A typically caustic, sardonic title: the thorn in the rose. If much of the current chart has much of the grace and flow of 1966 – a peerless pop year, yet on the edge – then we can no doubt expect 1967 soon, with all that that entails. Paul Weller has been trying for years.

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