The Selecter/The Bodysnatchers: Live Injection
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 1 March 1980
ROCK HAD started to get very boring again. Very self-important and pompous. Old concepts were rearing up on young shoulders with bands raiding Pink Floyd and Doors back catalogues quite shamelessly in the interests of their Art (capital A of course and nothing to do with such base concepts as pop or rock 'n' roll.)
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