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Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll
Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Date1/7/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll.
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