Leo Sayer: Endless Flight
Cliff White, NME, 4 December 1976
ALTHOUGH A lot of recorded music is impersonal (not necessarily a bad thing, it's quite possible to enjoy a record for its own sake without knowing or caring about the person(s) who created it) I assume that, except for disco wax, it's still a sense of identity with the artist that sways most buyers to choose one record over another of similar character.
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