Siouxsie & The Banshees
Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978
AND YOU ALL thought, or have been led to believe, that Siouxsie and the Banshees were nothing but grim-faced, black-clad warriors of doom and disorder, sour commitment, the pursuit of total perfection, with needless emotion let alone FUN a scorned irrelevancy.
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