Bobby Womack: Safety First
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 December 1975
BOBBY WOMACK is the kind of guy who lights up a room when he enters, and this suite in the Plaza Hotel is no exception. Sunday brunch arrived first, and Womack a few minutes later, emerging from his bedroom in a leather suit, bouncing across the suite and talking nineteen to the dozen.
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