Almost Famous: 1973 and all that
Charles Shaar Murray, Guardian, The, 2000
1973 AS A rock and roll annus mirabilis? Six thousand miles away from the old Rolling Stone office in San Francisco, it felt more like a fancy-dress party somewhere in Teenage Wasteland the morning after the revolution didnt happen.
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