George McCrae: Growing Pains But It's Worth It All
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, December 1975
IN SOME ways, George McCrae has attained the impossible. Because if you consider the past, you'll find that virtually every artist who literally explodes on to the big time with an international smash, has problems in consolidating him or herself.
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