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ROCKIN’ TO NEW ORLEANS
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THE BEAT GOES ON
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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
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BOY GEORGE
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Soaked to the skin, I was shivering on a grandiose Mayfair doorstep in deepening gloom, about to ring the bell leading to David Bowie’s press showing of his horror film The Hunger—when a gigantic thunderclap ripped through the unseasonably slate-colored skies.