Joe Boyd: Elephant Man
Len Brown, unpublished, 14 March 1989
IN AN UPSTAIRS storeroom at Hannibal Records HQ, the quarterback-sized Joe Boyd sits on a sack. Around him are boxes, piled high, brimming with the records of a lifetime.
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