The Jacksons: Meadowlands Stadium, New Jersey
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 11 August 1984
SCARCELY HAD I touched down Stateside last week when I found myself bound in a bus for Meadowlands in a humid pocket of endless, endlessly irrelevant New Jersey.
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