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| Brighton Bomb | |
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| Released | 1987 |
| Recorded | Wickham Studios |
| Genre | Punk rock, Oi! |
| Label | Chameleon Records |
Brighton Bomb is an Angelic Upstarts album, released in 1987. [1] It is a US re-issue of UK album release Power of the Press (1986), adding the 1985 12" single A-side "Brighton Bomb", and that single's cover art. [2]
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Side B
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