The Jam, Or, How To Not Break In America (Because You Don't Want To)
Chris Salewicz, Creem, March 1981
ON A DAMP, dank Sunday lunchtime the three pasty-faced, unhealthy-looking members of the Jam sit in an uncomfortably functional room in a nondescript London hotel close to Oxford Circus, and consider their new album, Sound Affects.
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