The dB's: Sophisticated Jukebox Music
Richard Cook, NME, 27 March 1982
THE APPEARANCE OF The Great American Pop Band on these shores hasn't exactly caused a stampede to the nation's box offices. But the dB's are winding up an English tour with Dave Edmunds that seems to have brought some more ears back to the most sophisticated jukebox music around.
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