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Mott The Hoople: Mott — An Enigma

Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 4 December 1971

"THE PLOT thickens" as they used to say in all the best detective stories and the mystery as to why Mott the Hoople cannot break into the First Division of rock and roll is even a puzzle to their mentor Ian Hunter who sums it up by confessing: "Mott are an enigma – they ought to see a rocky psychiatrist!"

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