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Have Love, Will Travel: In Praise of the Sonics

Metal Mike Saunders, Gulcher, July 1975

IT ALL STARTS with Richard Berry. He never received a Nobel Prize for writing 'Louie Louie', but to this day it beats me why – his hand in what eventually became the Kingsmen’s contribution to modern history had to be one of the most inspired strokes ever.

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