Kingsize Benson
Richard Cook, NME, 16 July 1983
So just how did this work a day guitarist called GEORGE BENSON sidestep the critical vitriol of the jazz and soul purists to become one of the major pop figures of today? RICHARD COOK provides the answer.
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