Heavy Metal Kids: Heavy Metal Kids
Mick Farren, NME, 22 June 1974
THERE WAS a time, way back in the middle of the sixties, when the British mod-Motown bands were all growing their hair and going psychedelic, and names taken from the works of William Burroughs had a brief vogue for rock and roll bands.
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