The Doctors Of Madness: Live in Manchester
Paul Morley, NME, 6 November 1976
THE DOCTORS of Madness have shot disjointed from dissident Velvet Underground empty emotions and heavy-eyed exasperation, the Bowie of Diamond Dogs admission that conventional revolution is useless (death is the only way out) and the obsessive Gothic temperatures of Van Der Graaf Generator.
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