What Is Bronski Beat?
Barney Hoskyns, Spin, May 1985
MEET WHAT IS perhaps the first real gay group in the history of pop. Theyre not drag queens, not even sure they want to be pop stars. All in all, theyd probably be happier doing community work in a London slum.
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