John Hiatt: Half Moon, Putney, London
Richard Cook, NME, 17 September 1983
FOR THE SECOND time in a matter of weeks this body-choked backroom played host to a mislaid American master. In John Hiatts territory he has no peers, and the grace and nerve of this performance translated directly into the hopes and illusions of everyone present.
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