Lonnie Donegan: Will The Circle Really Be Unbroken?
Mick Farren, NME, 4 February 1978
LONNIE DONEGAN'S life seemed to have completed such a perfect full circle that it could almost prove even the dumbest hippy's half-assed theories of a rotating cosmos. In a much smaller and less significant way, it also complete a particular circuit in my own life.
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