Shelley-Devoto: The Odd Couple
Adam Sweeting, Uncut, April 2002
YOU HAVE BEEN parachuted into the middle of 1976. Text messaging, Hear'Say and Osama Bin Laden belong to an unknowable future, but The Sex Pistols have arrived, The Clash are coming, and the word 'punk' is already going thin on top with over-use.
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