Eddy Grant: Living On The Ice Block
Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
How far can a black musician control his own destiny in white society? Surprise, surprise, not all the way, says the man in the front line. At least not yet, as he told VIVIEN GOLDMAN.
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