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Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Cotillion K50587)***

David Hepworth, Sounds, 7 April 1979

THE SNAP on the front may be Janet Reger boudoir and the one on the back corn row ethnic, but such image upgrading doesn't alter the fact that, in the whirling ballroom of life, Sister Sledge are the perennial wallflowers, good Baptist soul sisters let out for the night and allowed to watch the fast boys turn circles as long as they're back home in time for hot milk and Bible readings.

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