Rita Coolidge: The Lady's Not For Sale (A&M)
Charlie Gillett, NME, 24 February 1973
ONE OF the bright young kids in the NME office played 10 seconds of each cut on side one, heard not a sound, and chucked the thing out the window. I was down the stairs and in the street before it hit the ground, took it home and haven't played anything else since.
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