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George Thorogood and the Destroyers: George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1978

WHEN I FIRST heard this record some months ago, I was appalled. "One bourbon, one Scotch and one beee-ah," George Thorogoood was mush-mouthing over the radio — the crazed vulgarity of his singing would have embarrassed Eric Burdon — and who needed that?

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