Graham Central Station: Mirror
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 July 1976
ITS NOT every pop lyric writer who can slot in R.I. advice like "Then you should open it up to Matthew 24" and "Look in Revelation 21.4 where death and pain will be no more" and disrupt neither the rhyme nor the funky rhythm.
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