Carmel: Ronnie Scott's, London
Mat Snow, NME, 20 August 1983
CARMEL IDOLISES Edith Piaf, and Serge Clerc's sleeve for 'Bad Day' depicts her as a transatlantic chanteuse crooning those midnight blue notes for Rive Gauche jazzniks around the time Audrey Hepburn starred in Roman Holiday.
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