Simply Red
Len Brown, NME, 1 February 1986
SCENES OF decay and destruction: cracked streets, derelict warehouses, disused railways, a forsaken synagogue and – cloaked by walls of racist graffiti – the burnt-out corpse of a car.
Total word count of piece: 2087
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