Boy Georgie
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, April 1985
IT'S A TOUGH life in today's pop world. In these dark days of decreasing sales, with tight-fisted conservative little brats putting their pocket money into savings-and-loans instead of assuring the propagation of the limousine, stars are being forced into moonlighting to make ends meet.
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