Mary Hopkin: Postcard
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1969
POSTCARD IS AS much Paul McCartney's as it is Mary Hopkin's, which is to say that it is one of those albums on which the producer is as big a star as the performer.
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