Jimmy Castor: The Everything Man
Chris Salewicz, NME, 21 September 1974
SUBTLE ONE, that title. See, in the centre of the sleeve there's a picture of the dude who is presumably Jimmy Castor wearing a standard super-spade tuxedo and a neatly trimmed Afro beaming out from the stool he's perched up on.
Total word count of piece: 279
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