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The Jam: Rising Sons

Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, May 1980

HAS IT really been three years since the Jam made its first live appearance in America? Since three teenagers in matching suits and skinny ties fended off accusations that they were merely Who copyists and insisted they had nothing to do with the phenomenon called "punk-rock"?

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