Ginger Baker
Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 11 April 1970
GINGER BAKER is 31 years old and you DONT ignore him. You cant. He has accumulated a monstrous reputation over the past 10 years that makes him the wildest, most uncontrollable musician around. It goes before him into any room so that people, rather unjustly, tend to recoil with horror directly he looms on the horizon.
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