Andy Pratt: Nobody Knows My Name
Vivien Goldman, NME, 30 August 1975
HAVE your albums been deleted? Do they even refuse to take them at second-hand shops? Are you even now living off the dole, wondering where the next penny's coming from? Tough. But let's think instead about Andy Pratt, whose record career was brief indeed, with ne'er a lucky break. VIVIEN GOLDMAN begs to leave to bring his neglected work to your attention...
" My life has been pretty boring really." – Andy Pratt
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