Eric Clapton: The Bullring, Ibiza
Mick Farren, NME, 20 August 1977
IBIZA IS A VERY LONG way from the high pressure world of first division rock and roll. From the ancient Spanish women shrouded in all-concealing black dresses to the jet-set girls in minimal bikinis and hand-tooled cowboy boots everyone moves at a leisurely Mediterranean pace.
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