Elliott Murphy: Just A Story From America (CBS)
Andy Gill, NME, 21 May 1977
A FEW years ago, Rolling Stone printed a sizeable review of the first albums by Elliott Murphy and Bruce Springsteen, assessing them as contenders for the "New Dylan" title (such trivialities being in vogue after several years of Zim-silence).
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