Minnie Riperton
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
MINNIE RIPERTON is as fizzy as a soda bottle shaken on a hot summer day. Life, it is reassuring to know, can be enjoyed even in these times of depression, and Minnie is not so much afraid to show it as to prove how good it can be.
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