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Blue Rondo a la Turk: Camden Palace, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 8 September 1982

THE CAREER of Blue Rondo a la Turk illustrates vividly the perils of too close an association with style. Maligned by critics for the cut of their zoot suits, they now find themselves the only purveyors of a Salsa movement they once promised to lead to glory but which has inconsiderately died on its feet.

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