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Television: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2001

IT WAS the Sixties that divided London and New York punk: just traces to be kicked over, fathers to be killed, went the official line here, but in NYC CBGBs regulars like Patti Smith and Television looked back fondly to the likes of Dylan and Ginsberg, happy to inherit their mantle.

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