Raydio: Raydio & A Moon In June Reality
Cliff White, NME, 5 August 1978
RAY PARKER Jr., creator and main man in Raydio, the American sextet who recently toured with Bootsy and are just scoring their second British hit with 'Is This A Love Thing', this character is just the type to get right up the nose of rock paper editors who like their black men to be socially oppressed and therefore musically credible.
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