Dr. Feelgood: Hope & Anchor, London
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 11 September 1976
REAL CASE of dejaja vuvu it was, the night the Feelgoods played the Hope. To readers outside London the Hope and Anchor may just be another pub that regularly shows up in the gig listings, but it's one of London's definitive rock and roll dives, one of the places that put the pub into pub rock and the rock into pubs.
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