Ron Geesin: Cockpit Theatre, London
Miles, NME, 31 January 1976
DRESSED IN RED shorts and jersey with white sneakers, Ron Geesin looks like a combination of Elton John and Alexander Solzhenitsyn but has the crazed energy of Spike Milligan.
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