
XTC – Rockpalast – 1982 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
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I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave audience with the more mainstream Pop Music audience to become

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It pays for us to keep running: Become a Patron! – XTC – In Concert At Old Waldorf, San Francisco – Feb. 25, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – One of the bands that made the 80s something to talk about, XTC were around longer than they performed live; six