Status Quo: Piledriver
John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973
THE FACT THAT someone bothered to print the lyrics of Piledriver there's a title safe from prosecution under the Trades Description Act on the sleeve may not be reason enough to read them while listening to the record, but the words are hard to hear: Francis Rossi often sounds as if he's singing from the next room with variations in the number of people and the amount of furniture in there with him.
Total word count of piece: 419
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