P.J. Proby: Where Is He Now?
Martin Aston, Q, May 1993
AH, THAT FRINGE, and the velvet bow around the ponytail, and the impossibly tight trousers with the suspiciously vulnerable seams. He once warbled his way through Some-a-whaar; more recently he's been spotted wobbling his way down Halliwell Road in Bolton. But just where is P. J. Proby now? ask Rea Reid of Ebbw Vale and Margaret Garner of East Sheen.
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