Eye On The Future, Ear In The Past: Don McLean
Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 22 September 1973
DON McLEAN took a deep breath and launched into a long qualification of his next album — how one cycle was complete and how his future albums would bear no resemblance to past writings.
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