A Cat Stevens Spiritual Tours Vacation
Bob Woffinden, NME, 10 January 1976
RONALD BIGGS, the last of the Great Train Robbers still not in captivity, was finally run to ground by the Daily Express in a Rio de Janeiro hotel where Cat Stevens was coincidentally also resident. So one day he returned to the hotel to find the whole area covered with police cars and reporters. Had they come to take him away? Had his South American hideaway been rumbled?
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