Patto's Royal Command Performances
David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 25 December 1971
MIKE PATTO and his friends like to be known as the last of the raving bands – and they may well be right. Meeting them for the first time they put on an insane mask just to prove their point. But get under that and you find a good talking band, hard-working and with many a tale to tell.
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