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That Primitive Feeling: Killing Joke

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 9 August 1980

I MET KILLING Joke in one of the hellhole dressing-rooms at the Music Machine. I introduced myself to various people who weren't in the band until a swarthy guy overheard me, sprang up from his seat in the corner and came to me snarling "You're from Sounds? I want to talk to you!"

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