A Stronger Music to Die In: John Cale’s New Society
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 19 February 1983
"The great Welsh singer, pianist, guitarist, composer and arranger, who in 1967 was responsible for the most significant structural change in rock since Elvis's Sun sessions..."
— Richard Williams, The Times
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