Robert A. Johnson: Got Mah Ego Workin'
Max Bell, NME, 25 November 1978
When the Buffalo of Immodesty stomps the tender talent-plant 'neath its cloven heel, the result, as Confucius noted, is "rampant megabullshit, and I don't mean maybe."
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