Medicine Head
Andrew Tyler, NME, 25 August 1973
SO YOU'RE a dues-paying rock 'n' roll star with a couple of weeks to kill and you decide to flit off to Ahmadnagar and hang out at the tomb of your favourite guru. You want to meet the mandali and generally close in on your messianic source of god-rock poems.
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