Small Faces: Mystery Man 'Plonk' Lane
Keith Altham, NME, 16 September 1966
RONNIE PLONK LANE, bass guitarist and grand old man of the Small Faces at the age of 20, is the group's "Mysteryman." "Mystery" is Plonk's most overworked word to describe anything or anybody who is futuristic, exciting or exotic.
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