James Taylor: In My Pocket
Miles, NME, 17 July 1976
MOST OF US drift into comfortable mediocrity; in the end it's hard to avoid, particularly if your career had dumped wads and wads of money in your lap. It happens faster in rock than in most vocations, and it seems to have happened to James Taylor.
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