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Ska Jump: England to America

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1980

ROCK MUSIC'S vitality depends on a constant influx of new sounds. Just when American audiences are catching on to the three-year-old British punk/new-wave movement, a new force has asserted itself in England, and it's already making inroads here.

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