Robert Palmer: Pride
Gavin Martin, NME, 30 April 1983
WHEN HE gets up in the morning his muscles ache and his emotions are strange, far off, unrecognisable things, but the fine jets of water from the shower, the fresh sweet smell of the soap brings the automatic sophisticat man back to life.
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