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David Lee Roth: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988

A DAVID Lee Roth concert is perhaps the only place on the face of the earth where boys who look like traffic accidents can get off with pornographic girls. There's legs all over the place, and tee-shirts screaming "If You Don't Rock, You Suck", an epithet for most of the gathered multitude. That and the usual HM icons, etched across chests in the pompous gothic script you wouldn't even want on your tombstone.

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