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Simple Minds

Lindsay Hutton, ZigZag, March 1979

I'VE NEVER BEEN this goddam excited about a rock'n'roll band for ages. The monster media called NEW WAVE is almost finished and the climate is right for an upheaval to break the monotony of bandwagonning ex-heavy metal losers and bozos that overindulge in calculated weirdness.

Total word count of piece: 736

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