Third World: Third World (Island import)
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 17 April 1976
THIRD WORLD were the support act at Bob Marley and The Wailers' Lyceum concerts last summer, where they provided the kind of pleasant surprise that's all too rare from warm-up acts these days.
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