The Members: At The Chelsea Nightclub (Virgin)*****
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 7 April 1979
BEFORE WE start let something be said: if lesser papers want to slag off Sounds they're quite welcome to try, but per-lease don't use the Members to do it. At no time has anyone said they're the new Sex Pistols, Jules me old fruit, and neither have they ever felt the need to manufacture 'street credibility' Jon, you deep and meaningless twat.
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