US Festival ’83: No More In ‘84
John Mendelsohn, Record, The, Summer 1983
AFTER PUNK, audiences werent supposed to pay large amounts of money anymore for the privilege of watching superstars from the length of a football field away, shouting "Yeah!" whenever those exalted beings designed to demand. "Everybody having a good time?"
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