TV review: Public Enemy – Prophets of Rage

A Public Enemy doco takes Sam Wollaston back to his days of fighting the powerThis – Public Enemy: Prophets of Rage (BBC4) – takes me back. To Brixton Academy, I'm not sure what year, 1989 maybe. On stage are these dudes dressed as soldiers: they're creating an extraordinary, and extraordinarily big, noise. There are sirens going off, and samples of everything you can imagine. It's absolutely charged in there, brilliant, but a little bit scary for a soft middle-class white boy from Suffolk...

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