Sailor - No sex please we're Russo-Nordic
Max Bell, NME, 7 June 1975
TWO HAIRDRESSERS, a parachutist and a tortured poet; a band called Sailor, dressed in nautical gear, including a Ruskie prince and a member of the British aristocracy? No it'll never catch on – I mean Kevin Coyne thinks they look like the Bay City Rollers.
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