Split Enz: True Colours (A&M) ***½
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 9 August 1980
THE NAME might just ring a bell. Split Enz, the most unlikely musical product of the Antipodes (taking it that Duffo has nothing to do with music), were one of the most unfortunate victims of punk.
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