Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 19 August 1972
OOOWEE, Lawd knows it was a bad night's work. According to the divine plan, the Wembley crowd should have been blowing kisses at the Georgia Peach wringing their hands and leaping in sweaty ecstasy. The man had come all the way from Riverside, Calif., to spread the good news but Wembley couldn't be cracked.
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