Paul Weller: Last Man Standing
Paul Lester, Uncut, December 1998
"YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT LETTER," Paul Weller' is telling his press agents, Pippa Hall and Jane Wilkes of Monkey Business PR, referring to a particularly unpleasant review by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian of his summer concert in Hackney's Victoria Park, and to the missive he is requesting that Pippa and Jane fire off in response.
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