Pavlov's Dog: Walking The Dog
Max Bell, NME, 13 December 1975
WANT TO HEAR a shaggy dog story? O.K. Once upon a time there was a completely unknown band who were so exciting that ABC Records magnanimously gave them a big fat contract to go and change the world and six months later decided to cut out the album.
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