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The Specials: Stop The Tour, I Want To Get Off

Chris Salewicz, NME, 27 September 1980

IN ST AUSTELL, Cornwall, it is only a few minutes since the pubs have opened for Sunday lunchtime. The red-faced moustachioed police sergeant and the younger clean-shaven constable who accompanies him stand on a corner of the otherwise deserted High Street, idly contemplating the Coventry City coach that has been co-opted by the Specials for their current UK tour.

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