Thomas Dolby (with Kevin Armstrong and Matthew Seligman)
Betty Page, Noise, 9 December 1982
"THE SPORTILY dressed, slightly oddball young man walked onto the stage. His National Health (Model 232) spex struggled with the glare of the spotlights. Gradually he was able to make out the vague shape of an audience in the heat haze."
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