Angel Of Avalon: Sandy Denny
Jim Irvin, MOJO, 1998
ON THE AFTERNOON of Monday, April 18th, 1978, a young London-based musician named Jon Cole left his flat in Barnes, climbed into his Datsun Cherry and set off for Hammersmith where his band, The Movies, were rehearsing.
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