The Fall: All Fall Down
Ian Penman, NME, 5 January 1980
JUST ABOVE my typewriter on the mantlepiece is an eye-catching tube of 10 orange flavoured effervescent tablets. Each tablet contains 1g orange flavoured concentrated Vitamin C or, more exactly, '1g ascorbic acid BP (Vitamin C) and flavouring'.
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