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What Is Bronski Beat?

Barney Hoskyns, Spin, May 1985

MEET WHAT IS perhaps the first real gay group in the history of pop. They’re not drag queens, not even sure they want to be pop stars. All in all, they’d probably be happier doing community work in a London slum.

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