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The Stiff Tour: Stiffs Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 5 November 1977

"SEX AND drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll..." Hot damn, m'man, Leicester University is jumpin' tonight. The hall is ass-to-ass jam-packed with sweaty people going boingggg-boingggg-boingggg to the deranged rhythm of Ian Dury's 77 anthem to the joys of the Good Things In Life, all of them chanting manaically along to Himself's almost mantric invocation.

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