Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Giraffe Looked At Siouxsie
Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 17 February 1979
"WHAT DO you think of it, then?" sneered Siouxsie Sioux as we slipped into the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin's notorious main strip, which is like Oxford Street during an economic boom. "I don't think much of it," she continued. "Far too many old ladies dripping furs and jewelry."
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