Third World: 100 Club, London
Penny Reel, NME, 25 November 1978
IT IS surely not coincidental that now Island seem to have relegated Bob Marley and company to the status of lampoonery with joke titled albums they should meanwhile have nurtured an outfit capable pf becoming as big, if not bigger, than The Wailers (RIP).
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