Funkadelic: It's Just To Get People's Attention
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
EVER since Keith Emerson set fire to an American flag on the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall, the banning of groups from that particular venue has been headlined in stories in all the papers.
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