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Simon Frith, Cream, June 1972
I THINK I liked it better when rock didnt have a history. These days record companies seem to be the victims of some Tutankhamen-like curse, obsessively searching for buried treasures, long forgotten tapes that they can buy cheap and sell dear. I can see whats in it for them but it makes life hard on a reviewer.
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