Tracking The New Inspirationals: The Alarm
John Mendelsohn, Record, The, June 1984
THEIR MOVEMENT MAY be said to have been born on the smoggy Labor Day afternoon in 1983 when U2s Bono climbed to the top of the US Festivals stage scaffolding while a heretofore demoralized generation looked on in awe and Showtimes cameramen got nosebleeds just watching.
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