John Sebastian: Speak Up Ya Creep!
Chris Salewicz, NME, 30 November 1974
THERE ARE certainly more than one or two among us who suspect that John B. Sebastian has long since gone right over the top; that the solo career of the ex-Lovin' Spoonful condotierre had become suspended in some tie-dyed hallucinatory time-lock somewhere down by the Southern Californian ocean.
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