John Baldry: Everything Stops For Tea
Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 25 May 1972
WHEN IS someone going to come out and say that, despite all the hype and hoopla, John Baldry is a non-talent poseur that would never have emerged from his well-deserved obscurity if he hadn't had the good fortune to get his first Warner Bros album produced by Elton John and Rod Stewart?
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