Dave Berry
John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
IT'S VERY EMBARRASSING to be caught out when you haven't done your homework. We hadn't planned much before we met Dave Berry because we automatically assumed that most of the conversation would hinge on what he hadn't been doing for the past six years. On the dole as likely as not, or trying to live down the past on an assembly line.
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