Tom Robinson Band: Power In The Darkness
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 20 May 1978
TOM ROBINSON IS dangerously mythic. His aggressive homosexual stance gets up people's noses so much that they continually try to prove he's secretly straight, and say he'll wind up marrying some nice girl — as if that affected his message.
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