Public Image Ltd.: PiL in Hollywood
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 24 May 1980
HUDDLED ROUND the side with a crowd of disco dancers waiting for their fifteen minutes of fame, watching a fake Doobie Brothers run through their number so note perfect that, except for the old guy who's been sent off to find Public Image (as he calls them) the television crew are sitting around betting on the horse race on the monitors.
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