Eric Burdon, Animal Trainer
Keith Altham, NME, 30 April 1965
CLAD in a black track suit, zippered to the neck, and still wearing his carpet slippers, the chunky figure of Eric Burdon lay writhing on the floor of his Earls Court flat. I describe it as "writhing," Eric calls it "exercise."
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