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David Johansen’s Journey Through the Past

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 10 February 2001

Between songs the occasional, almost plaintive, yelp can be heard: "‘Subway Train’!" "‘Funky But Chic’!" One particularly persistent voice calls for ‘Babylon’, of all things, throughout the set.

"‘Baaa-beee-lon!!’"

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