Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1974
REMEMBER WHEN the Stones and Beatles were English bands? If you do then it's just barely, because both ceased being foreign bands years ago, somewhere around the time their dollar income began to exceed the accumulation of those stable pound sterlings.
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