Spencer Davis Group: 'Somebody' Makes No. 1 — But Too Quickly For Spence!
Keith Altham, NME, 15 April 1966
THAT WELL-known chart topper and expectant father ("If it's a bloke I'm going to call him Gregory") and man about Potters Bar Spencer Davis, roared up outside Cockfosters tube station last Wednesday evening in his new success symbol, a blue Mini Cooper S, to take me back to his house for tea.
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