Ralph McTell: The Anti-Star…
Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
SILVER DISCS paper the walls of Ralph McTell's new eight-roomed Putney castle. There's going to be a studio upstairs, he says, directly above where the grand piano is sitting now. And he's currently taking professional advice on how his vast rear garden should be plotted.
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