Soft Cell: No Ordinary Whipper Snappers
John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1984
YOU REPORT TO the Ramada Inn in Beverly Hills at the agreed-upon hour of a drizzly afternoon between Halloween and Thanksgiving to ask Soft Cell hard questions, but they were expecting you earlier.
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