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The Beat: I Love the USA

Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 15 November 1980

THE BEAT are beginning again at the beginning. Here they are in Chicago, four or five weeks into their first American tour — much of which has been spent supporting the Pretenders in points as far West as Kansas. There's nothing remotely like the Beat in America.

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