The Blackbyrds: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Cliff White, NME, 7 February 1976
BETCHA DIDN'T know there's such a thing as Black-byrdomania. Neither did I until this concert, when a quietly slumbering stalls suddenly became a heaving sea of bumpin' and jumpin' bedlam. And that was before the group were even halfway into their first number.
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