Arthur Brown: Live at Speakeasy, London
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 11 September 1976
THE LAST time I saw Arthur Brown work he perpetrated one of the most numblingly embarrassing performances I can recall, one that still festers in the memory, quivering obscenely with noisome detail.
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