Kevin Ayers' Velvet June 1, 1974
Jon Tiven, Circus, February 1976
CHARACTERIZING Kevin Ayers as a brilliant musician is like saying Jimmy Page is a nice guitar player both are fairly accurate conclusions if you have a penchant for understatement. But even though Kevin's been playing along with some of the most talented people known to modern man, he has never been recognized as anything more than a curio by the public at large.
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