Love Story: Alone Again, or Arthur Lee
Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1997
HIGH UP in Laurel Canyon, with all of Los Angeles spread out around him, Arthur Lee would sit and stare and contemplate death - "sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die," as he sang it in 'The Red Telephone', the brilliantly creepy song that concluded Side One of Loves Forever Changes.
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