Bette Midler: Just A Working Class Girl Living Out Her Fantasies
Nick Kent, NME, 17 February 1973
BETTE MIDLER, the Divine Miss Bette Midler, is a star. Ahmet Ertegun, man of wealth and taste, and head of Atlantic Records, believes it; Aaron Russo, entrepreneur and Miss Midler's manager, believes it; the homosexual clientele of the Continental Baths in New York believe it. And, above all, Bette Midler herself believes it.
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