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The Adverts: Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 February 1978

ONCE UPON a time, the fastest way of revealing yourself as an Old Fart Who Didn't Understand The New Wave was to allege – in even the mildest and most non-derisive terms – that occasionally the musicianship left something to be desired.

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