Skate Board Grounds the Starship
Mick Farren, NME, 18 September 1976
I WAS WOKEN up by the phone. I had some trouble working out where I was. It took a few seconds to realise that I was in the Sheraton Motor Inn in Pontiac, Michigan. It took a few more seconds to work out what I was doing there. I picked up the phone.
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