Frankie Miller: Falling In Love (Chrysalis)
Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979
AT ONE time Frankie Miller looked as though he was going to do a Joe Cocker without the intervening period of success. Now he just looks like becoming Rod Stewart – with a stovepipe hat.
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