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Merry Clayton: The Triumphant Acid Queen

Roger St. Pierre, NME, 30 December 1972

MERRY CLAYTON is the girl who stopped the show at the London Rainbow performance of Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy earlier this month. Even the orchestra downed their instruments to applaud.

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