Roger McGuinn: Urban Spaceman Metamorphoses Into Plumber
Mick Farren, NME, 30 August 1975
ROGER McGUINNS return to the Los Angeles Troubadour could be described as something of a minor triumph. With Steve Love, Richard Bowden, Greg Attaway and David Lovelace, the band that played a rather damp, free concert in London's Hyde Park just over a year ago, he produced something of a nostalgic gala that had the self-consciously hip audience yelling of more.
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