An Interview with Mick Farren
Martin Herron, unpublished, 2001
UK ROCK CRITICISM has produced its fair share of great writers: Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray and Barney Hoskyns, to name but a few. But theres only one writer whose legend looms as large as the bands he wrote about...Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Mick Farren.
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