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The Fireballs

David Burke, Vintage Rock, July 2015

THEY WERE acclaimed as pioneers of the surf sound alongside Dick Dale, Link Wray and the Ventures, but the Fireballs, who enjoyed a US chart topper with 'Sugar Shack' in 1963, had no idea what the term actually meant.

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