Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (Columbia)
Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, 3 March 2001
Coming off the extraordinary experience of making Death of a Ladies Man in 1977 with Phil Spector (being locked up in the studio, having a gun held to his throat by Spector, having the album entirely mixed using only the first, rough, vocal takes) The Tycoon of Teen meeting the Duke of Gloom had, to put it mildly, not worked out.
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