Graham Parker: Southampton University, Southamption
Chas de Whalley, NME, 24 January 1976
YOU CAN PICTURE the scene – it's the same one that goes down on the first night of every major college tour; equipment trouble, late arrivals, nerves and general backstage chaos.
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