Roy Brown: Cheapest Price In Town
Cliff White, NME, 11 November 1978
ALTHOUGH AT 53 going on 25, Roy Brown is relatively young for an R&B star who first recorded just after the war, there's no getting around the fact that he's one of a dying breed, indeed, most of his immediate predecessors and many of his musical contemporaries are dead – and few of the survivors are feeling at all well.
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