Medicine Head: The Unknown Celebrities
Tony Stewart, NME, 23 June 1973
AT A DELIGHTFUL pub in Twickenham on Saturday eve, Medicine Head's Peter Hope-Evans sat drinking a glass of Lowenbrau. The perpetual grin across his face was only broken by a regular swallow and an occasional belch. Nobody, he was explaining, ever recognised him in the street.
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