Speedy Keen: Y'Know Wot I Mean?
John Morthland, Creem, May 1976
SPEEDY KEEN'S basically comical persona is good enough by me: the inebriated ex-Mod, a tad daft, struggling for equilibrium in a world whose quirks don't quite coincide with his own. His faltering, slightly hysterical voice fits nicely.
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