The month of March commemorates the 35th anniversary of the release of The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! We’re celebrating this sacred event with a monthlong series of posts. We’ll have personal stories, from the staff and also from respected guest writers, about hearing the album for the first time and the influence it has had. We’ll also have reviews and ads from BITD, trivia (did you know, that if you play “Back To Africa” backwards, you can hear Ross say “I buried Stu-Boy?”), and plenty of other foolishness. Be there or be square!
— Salvi C.
Found my scratched up copy at the Salvation Army around 1976 or so. The one song I am embarrassed to say I was enraptured by was the cover of I Got You Babe. Did not realize the brilliance of the album until several years later.