Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 15 February 1975
THE SCENE IS the Dorchester Hotel, one of the last vestiges of Britain's Imperial splendour and we've just been refused admission to the restaurant for not wearing ties. Still, nobody is saying anything to the wealthy, be-robed Arab potentates who are floating about.
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