Tom Robinson Band: The Starwood, LA
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 24 June 1978
CONSIDERING THE relative lack of any amount of hype, the Starwood was respectably full, if respectable' is a word you could use to describe the least salubrious of the three major rock clubs in LA. The Tom Robinson Band's two nights in Hollywood are the first dates of a short, mostly promotional US tour.
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