Jonathan King: A Rose in a Fisted Glove
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 22 March 1975
WHEN JONATHAN KING first manifested his presence upon this already sufficiently troubled planet he was able to masquerade as a genuinely provocative presence, mainly because he possessed the faint semblance of a criticial intelligence, he had hits while he was still a student and he made exquisitely awful records that enabled him to make complete fools out of the record-buying public for sitting still for his absurd stunts.
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