The Runaways: Live In Japan *****
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 August 1977
BEFORE YOU take that pinch of salt to go with this album's five star rating, a couple of points: this album was NOT produced by Kim Fowley, and he DIDN'T write four of the five previously unrecorded songs which appear on it.
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