Heartache Out, Protest In: Jackson Browne
Steve Turner, Sunday Times, 5 October 1986
"Doesnt he look young!" gasped a woman behind me as Jackson Browne strolled on stage to kick off his six-date London run which ends tonight. Indeed he did. His lank little-boy haircut shone squeaky-clean in the spotlight, a blue work-shirt concealed no thickening midriff and the on-the-road indulgences of the Seventies seemed to have been kind to his fresh features.
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