Randy Newman: Dominion Theatre, London
Max Bell, NME, 8 December 1979
RANDY NEWMAN was wandering around backstage at the Dominion gazing disconsolately down. "Why doesn't anyone like my ELO song?" he kept asking no one in particular and no in particular answered.
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