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- ↑ Pelly, Jenn (5 October 2017). The Raincoats' the Raincoats. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501302428.
- ↑ The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. p.142, ISBN 978-0754657736
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