Sleaze: The '70s
Mick Farren, NME, 29 October 1977
THE MUTANTS, the dwarfs and the all night girls (that's right, the ones who still brag about escapades out on the D train, despite the fact that the amphetamines have turned their teeth brown and they've taken so many downers that orgasms are no longer possible) have always been with us. They probably always will be.
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