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Bruce force from Australia: Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett was determind to get his message across to an audience that seemed blithely disinterested, reviewer Craig MacInnis says
Bruce force from Australia: Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett was determind to get his message across to an audience that seemed blithely disinterested, reviewer Craig MacInnis says

Bruce force from Australia: Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett was determind to get his message across to an audience that seemed blithely disinterested, reviewer Craig MacInnis says

Date7/28/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bruce force from Australia: Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett was determind to get his message across to an audience that seemed blithely disinterested; reviewer Craig MacInnis says.
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