Backroom Stuff From Peter Wolf
Mick Brown, Sounds, January 1976
PETER WOLF lopes across his Savoy Hotel Suite to a tape-deck and slots in a cassette of Arthur Conley singing 'Sweet Soul Music'. "That opening brass riff is from the theme to 'The Magnificent Seven' ", smiles Wolf. "And that chorus is exactly like an old Sam Cooke song..."
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