The Dexedrine Gang: Dexy's Midnight Runners
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 January 1980
BY THE TIME I'd reached the counter, I'd forgotten it. "What was it again?" I called over to the Dexy's tables. They said "Five teas and two coffees. Two teas with three sugars, one with two and one with one, one coffee with three and one with none." Of course.
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