Equals Stunned By No. 3 Hit
Alan Smith, NME, 29 June 1968
EVEN THE Equals can't believe an old half-forgotten track like 'Baby Come Back' could have boosted them from nowhere right up into the big money-earning bracket of the NME's Top 3. But it's happened. And as the egomaniac who prophesied they'd hit the charts as long as six months ago, let me here and now tip their next single as an almost certain No. 1.
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