Simple Minds: Strangers In A Strange Land
Tony Stewart, NME, 17 February 1979
SIMPLE MINDS were fidgety as they sat around the kitchen table, some of them exhaling long streams of cigarette smoke while the others rattle boiled sweets around their mouths.
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