The Runaways: And I Wonder…I Wah Wah Wah Wah Wonder…
Chris Salewicz, NME, 24 July 1976
THE CORRAL lies maybe midway down Topanga Canyon, between Ventura Freeway and Malibu Beach. Maybe it's just the Romantic in me but visually – and remember this is eleven on a Friday night – it's a ringer for the staging post in John Ford's Stagecoach.
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