The Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones: Live At The Roundhouse, London, Summer 1976
Mat Snow, NME, 1985
AS SPRING turned into the long, hot summer of '76, the '60s in the bloated shape of The Rolling Stones self-parodied itself up its own orifice and expired on the Earl's Court stage.
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