Black Widow
uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1970
THE LAST FEW months have seen the emergence of one or two bands whose publicity and stage act seem to be based on – not Meher Baba or Apostles of the Light – but on the teachings of Honorius and other advocates of the Way of the Left Hand Path; in short, on Black Magic.
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