Boz Scaggs: Central Park, New York
Max Bell, NME, 14 August 1976
STROLLING THROUGH New York's Central Park on a hot and sultry Friday afternoon was pretty much like reliving a David Peel song. The paths and verges littered with mainline black, heavy looking dealer dudes advertising their wares in tones of hushed menace.
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