Puppy Love In The Plasma-Glow: Kajagoogoo at Hammersmith Odeon
Richard Cook, NME, 11 June 1983
AS PHENOMENA GO, Kajagoogoo seem like the nastiest end of a train that starts in Boy George's inspirational and self-sufficient glamour and ends in the carnivorous, protuberant teeth of Kaja's bass player, a man with the most unappealing stage presence I can remember colliding with.
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