Alan Smith Finds Foundations An Unusual 'Bunch'
Alan Smith, NME, 10 February 1968
THE BEATLES had it. So did Gerry "Engelbert Humperdinck" Dorsey, the Four Tops and Tom Jones. I'm talking about faith — an artist's faith in himself and in his own future. The kind of faith that kept a group or singer plodding on through the lean years in the hope that one day, somehow, that big hit record was going to come along.
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