Joan Armatrading: Reluctant Singer Returns
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 31 May 1975
"I'M THE most boring person in the whole world," Joan Armatrading announces, sticking her head out the window of A&M's Oxford Street offices, breathing in fresh air and sunshine.
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