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The Jam: The Gift (Polydor)

Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 6 March 1982

ALTHOUGH THERE is every possibility that any of a hundred lesser known bands have the potential to one day produce as good an artefact as The Gift, in this flabby carcass of free enterprise only a lucky few are allowed to ascend to the dizzying heights of multinational mega stardom.

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