They “found a perfect niche, specializing in the doomed romanticism of American Teenage life and unfolding a landscape filled with misunderstood adolescents, rebel boyfriends, disapproving parents, the foreboding threat of pregnancy and inevitably, tragic death.” Their hit, “I Can Never Go Home Anymore,” “saw the old teenage angst transmogrified into an almost tragic, sexual neuroticism” (The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 2006).
The Shangri-Las “I Can Never Go Home Anymore”
The Shangri-Las “I Can Never Go Home Anymore”
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