Bobby Womack: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Simon Frith, Observer, The, 1984
FOR THE last couple of weeks, London theatres have been filled (or should have been) with British pop musicians taking tips from their American masters. Bobby Womack, who played a brief season at the Hammersmith Odeon, is the last great star of the Sixties soul movement which determined what male feelings should sound like.
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