Rock in Ireland: Rock in the Dark Ages
Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 15 May 1976
IF OXFAM WERE to adopt the same stategy towards rock starvation as they do towards the plight of the world's hungry, then one of the first mercy flights would be to Ireland.
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