Nils Lofgren: Rock 'n' Roll's Great Lost Hero
Paul Morley, NME, 15 September 1979
ONE: FINGERNAILS
NILS LOFGREN is a small man with a lovely face. One chocolate brown eye is smaller, almost lazier, than the other; this gives his steady expression a seductive, quizzical edge. He walks like Charlie Chaplin and bites his fingernails.
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