Mick Farren: Is There Life After Dingwalls?
Chris Salewicz, NME, 30 September 1978
DESPITE THE SILK shawl wrapped about its neck to prevent its head falling off, there is a dignity, a pride, even a sense of all knowingness, about the stuffed ant-eater as, from its corner in the room, it maintains an unceasing vigil on the British Relay Colour 26-incher.
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