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Ken McIntyre

"The album careens so quickly between clever and stupid that I'm surprised it hasn't become a cult classic." A story of flick-knives, tyre-irons, and Desmond Child's little-remembered 'gang rock' phase

Desmond Child & Rouge in 1978, studio portrait.

'Gang Rock.' Sounds awesome, but it doesn’t exist. But Gang Rock almost existed. And future multi-platinum songwriter Desmond Child was the man who almost made it happen.

Clearly, the concept was on his mind, as it runs through his debut pseudo-solo record, Desmond Child & Rouge (1978). A year later, a non-LP track, the shamefully cornball Warriors, appeared on the soundtrack for the street-fight-movie-to-end-all-street-fight-movies of the same name.

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