America: St George To The Rescue
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 4 October 1975
DEWEY BUNNELL stood in the middle of his Manchester hotel suite, scratched his beard, and grinned. An hour before, Dewey and a couple of his friends, Gerry Beckly and Dan Peek, had finished their first British concert in over a year. Since America fled Britain for their homeland, concentrating on greener pastures, much here has changed.
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