Siouxsie and the Banshees: Hyaena
Roy Trakin, Creem, November 1984
ONCE UPON a time, they might've burned Siouxsie Sioux at the stake or thrown her in a lake to see if she'd float with rocks tied to her ankles. Today, she's signed to a recording contract with the hope that she'll be the most famous witch since mother-in-law Agnes Moorehead made Elizabeth Montgomery's husband Dick York so miserable in Bewitched.
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