Joe Walsh: Lonely Leader
Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975
IT'S A BIT disconcerting when you're having a perfectly innocent conversation and the guy you're talking to suddenly brandishes a knife beneath your nose. Not just any knife, either there's the Nazi swastika emblazoned on the handle, and its proud new owner Joe Walsh is affectionately stroking the sinister blade.
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