Who, Stranglers: Laser Laser On The Wall Who Are Complacent After All
Paul Morley, NME, 25 August 1979
THE MIDDLE OF the evening and it's getting quite dim. The Who are playing a new song; at least, I take it to be a new song because the 72,000 aficionados packed onto the Wembley pitch and spread around the terraces, are in the middle of one of their lifeless periods.
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