Would Wall of Voodoo have ever reached the charts with a hit single if not for its memorable music video? We’ll never know, but their signature song “Mexican Radio”—released in 1982— was just the sort of tune that would have been unlikely to be a hit just a year or two earlier. From Stan Ridgway’s […]
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