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The Fat Boys: Crushin' (Urban/Polydor)

Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 26 September 1987

EVEN IN their days as a one-gag band, playing Sham 69 to Run DMC's Pistols, the Fat Boys were immensely (and I do mean immensely) appealing, if only because they were the only hip-hop crew to reassess their priorities and allot sex a back seat to their real obsession: food.

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