Rory Gallagher: The Show Must Go On!
David Sinclair, Q, July 1990
AT THE START of 1970 the world was Rory Gallagher's oyster. Cream had split up towards the end of 1968 and Hendrix, having dissolved the Experience, had spent most of 1969 faffing around in a haze of dissolute disorganisation.
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