Elton John: Madman Across The Water (DJM)
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 30 October 1971
IT'S AN ODD fact that the British tend to malign their own products to the point of insanity. We managed to ignore Joe Cocker, almost knock Marc Bolan into the ground, and have, over the past six months, taken a hammer to Elton John.
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