Secret Affair: Behind Closed Doors
Chris Bohn, NME, 13 September 1980
THOUGH MOD never got as far as its second summer, it served Secret Affair's purpose. Seeing the movement coming, Ian Page used its momentum to throw his band to the top of the pile and he was too astute to collapse when the bottom fell out of the short-lived boom.
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