Scott McKenzie: I'm No Professional Flower Child
Keith Altham, NME, 5 August 1967
"I AM NOT A professional flower child," stressed Scott McKenzie over the transatlantic phone wire. "I'd rather carry a flower than a gun. But I do not like uniforms or the way certain people are packaging 'love', to be sold in shops.
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