Kevin Rowland: A Folk Hero Of The '80s
Gavin Martin, NME, 3 July 1982
THE RAIN POURS down and the traffic piles up along London's Notting Hill Gate as Kevin Rowland and myself make our way through the grey afternoon looking for a place to have some light refreshment and continue the interview which had started the previous day.
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