Specials: Rude Boys Spread Manure In Yank Bed Of Roses
Simon Frith, Creem, April 1980
THE SPECIALS are the first group I've followed from first gig to international stardom. Nobody else realizes this, but their first ever press mention was, in fact, in CREEM. It was in a Letter From Britain in late 1977.
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