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Run DMC

Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 9 March 1985

Run DMC are two New Yorkers who set their raps to a raw rock backdrop and talked their way up the charts.

Paolo Hewitt meets the dynamic duo who cross AC/DC with the Jackson Five and call themselves The Kings of Rock.

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