The Motels: Checking In With The Motels
Mark Leviton, Music Exchange, April 1982
SHE'S HAD LOVE affairs and bands break up around her, and she has steered a course to a successful career by combining the tough pragmatism and skill of a self-starter with the intuitive and emotional commitment of an aesthete. Martha Davis, lead vocalist and contributing songwriter of Capitol Records recording artists the Motels, has to be one of the most remarkable survivors in the tough music business.
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