Talking Heads: Remain In Light
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 October 1980
WELL ALRIGHT, I may never be going back to my old school, but I remember a saying they had out in the yard that's one of the few things I picked up there to continue to be of use through the years. It went: "Tell us news, not history".
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