God is Alive and Well and Living Off Rock'n'Roll...
Mick Farren, NME, 22 March 1975
Unfurling his roadmaps for the soul, MICK FARREN, Bachelor of Divinity of this parish, slumps grimly over his flea-ridden Olivetti to bang out the sandwich-luncher's key to the infinite – otherwise known (to those who know how to BE) as the New Musical Express Consumers' Guide To Comparative Religion. Eyes down for a full house...
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