Skunk Hunting In W1
Chris Salewicz, NME, 19 July 1975
THERE'S A delicately detailed brass rubbing of Burlington House above the bed-head in room 420 at the Inn On The Park. Some rock musicians would've tried to bend it into a frisbee. Most wouldn't have even registered its existence. "I've spent a lot of time just looking at that," Jeffrey Baxter tells me.
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