Noel Redding: Blowin'
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976
ROCK LYRICS aren't usually worth printing on the sleeve, but most bands display their adolescent poetry as if Homer played rhythm guitar, and Dostoyevsky was on drums.
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