Where Radical Meets Chic: Scritti Politti
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 31 October 1981
"SCRITTI POLITTI" – didn't you always wonder where their "political writings" were? I did. I always wondered whether their hearts were in their music or in their minds. Or some such intolerable cliche. Their little contribution to the erosion of the music industry always struck me somehow as too concerted, too organised.
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