Red On Arrival: The Redskins
Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 8 December 1984
"TUC LEADER Norman Willis tells Arthur Scargill a few home truths," they said on Channel 4 news last night (and this is the Left Wing station?!). "Propaganda, all is phoney," I seem to remember Blind Lemon Zimmerman once rasping. The foreigners must think were completely mad.
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