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Progress and Survive: Survivor

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982

THE NEW ETHIC of survival in America, with its Survivalists and all, is enabling rock groups to get to the top by singing about what it takes to get there. How appropriate, then, that the number one record in America for the last two months has been by a group called Survivor.

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