The Lurkers: Attack Of The Distortion People
Jeremy Gluck, Sounds, 23 July 1977
ALLOW ME TO present The Lurkers, whose enlightened adherence to the golden rule of "Three Chords, Three Verses, Three Minutes" definitely fingers them as the British deterrent to the Ramones.
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