Dorothy Moore, Jimmy James & Vagabonds, Wild Honey: The Palladium, London
Cliff White, NME, 2 October 1976
IT'S 1 A.M. and I've just about survived a ludicrous Sunday, beginning at some ungodly hour I never knew existed and exercising patience I never knew I had in me, waiting to meet Marvin Gaye while Marvin Gaye was swanning around America, declining to take his scheduled flight to Britain because he suddenly fancied the idea of traveling on Concorde.
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