File:DeadOrAliveEpic.jpg

Photograph of Dead or Alive (band) (1985).

http://lansuresmusicparaphernalia.blogspot.com/2011/07/dead-or-alive-press-kits.html, Copyright : Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd., 1985

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