Eleven Years of Coastin’: The Coasters
Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Several years ago The Coasters were internationally known and much has been written about them. Whilst I do not wish to regurgitate facts that are familiar to all, a feature on the present team is not coherent without a summary of those that went before and due to their recent visit the groups previous activities bear some repetition.
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