Prelude To Love
John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1973
WHILE CHATTING to Jerry Hopkins, Rolling Stone's man in London, at a press reception, I found that he was involved in the early career of Love. He agreed to let me point a microphone at him and drag out his recollections of the period; they came out rather like this:
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