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Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, July 2001
HARD TO BELIEVE it's been thirty-two years now since the self-proclaimed "Rock 'n' Roll King of the Southwest," who practically single-handedly bridged the (southern-fried) Fifties to the (swinging-English) Sixties, was found gasoline-soaked and beaten to death in the front seat of his mother's Oldsmobile.
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