Incredible String Band: York University, York
Michael Gray, Rolling Stone, 9 August 1969
YORK IS A WALLED medieval city that belongs to Rowntrees Chocolate. You step off the train on some evenings and the scent of After Eight mints is blowing right through the streets. Also a rockers' playground, where nothing happens on Saturday nights except the drinking of enormous amounts of beer.
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