Richard and Linda Thompson: Do You Wanna Be A Star?
Bob Woffinden, NME, 8 March 1975
IT WAS ONE of those large Edwardian houses in London's Hampstead, just off the main road. Like most of the others, it had been converted into flats. There were a lot of steps to the front door, and the pram had sensibly been left at the bottom.
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