Kokomo: Killing Me Funkily
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 13 December 1975
YOU REMEMBER how Barbarella nearly died on the Excessive Pleasure Machine? Well, Kokomo almost finished me off the same way the other night. Their whole set was one long, unadulterated, uncomplicated high. It started funky and it finished funky and in between it was funky.
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