Ian Little: Gateway to Asia
Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 10 July 1982
CHECK THE scarf then consider all points east. Face more than slightly swarthy, eyes coffee dark, Ian Little could easily turn out to be a refugee from the war-torn Lebanon...or maybe a Saudi, Iranian, or Turk. When he was on a holiday in Greece the locals continually mistook him for one of them. Perhaps he was.
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