The Police: The Whisky, Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 14 April 1979
THERE'S SOMETHING schizophrenic about this group. An English band with an American drummer, a Californian who knows how to bash out rock and roll – with feeling, at that.
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