J. Geils Band: Hot Line
Mick Farren, NME, 15 November 1975
THERE WAS a time, I guess it must have been a couple of years ago now, when the J. Geils band were being hailed as the hottest down home rock and roll, veritable saviours in the midst of all the faggot posturing.
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