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Ian Hunter's Love-Hate Relationship With Rock'n'roll

Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1979

IAN HUNTER'S been staying at his Manhattan hotel so long (two months) that the staff treat him like a member of the family. Between desperate gulps of caffeine in the downstairs coffee shop – it's only 1 P.M., after all – Hunter is pontificating on the state of new wave music back in the UK when he's approached by a grey-haired waiter.

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