Can Can... And They Will
James Johnson, NME, 5 February 1972
OF ALL the heavy German bands Can are perhaps the most interesting and could prove the most influential. Next month they tour Britain and, judging from their newly released Tago Mago double album, they will finally kill the notion that European musicians are the poor country cousins of rock.
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