Love Over Gold: Captain Beefheart Talks To RM Readers
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 8 April 1972
FIVE YEARS ago, the magic name of Captain Beefheart was no more than an imported LP in the window-display of clique-ey One-Stop Records. There it caught the eye of Peter Meaden, entrepreneur extraordinaire and ex-protégé of Andrew Oldham.
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