Electric Light Orchestra: Roll Over Chuck Berry and Tell Beethoven the News
Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 19 December 1974
SAN FRANCISCO Jeff Lynne nods toward the sliding glass door, through which can be seen an in-progress high-rise which looms uncomfortably close to his room at the Miyako Hotel. "It sounded like that sound out there," he says.
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