Jackson Browne: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Gavin Martin, NME, 11 October 1986
A SUITABLY large number of Americans turn out to sample Jackson Browne's Californian confessional. Sunshine, bleeding hearts, airbrushed emotions, existentialist romances lost in the night and mid-decade political crises of consciences – the boy with the Sunsilk middle parting and fresh-faced appeal etches the lifestyle better than most.
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