ATV: Is As Wonderful
Danny Baker, ZigZag, December 1977
I WAS AT ONE of Steve Mick's bi-annual parties, (baffling, rambling affairs – you want to find your long-lost aunt? Come in and prowl around, you can find someone just as good...), when Mark told me to keep it down but he was forming a band.
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