Steve Harley Says It Loud: 'I'm Back And I'm Proud!
Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976
SO LONG AS the braggadocio who boasts "I'm the greatest" or "I'm a star" continues to climb up the success ladder, sceptics and critics are kept at bay, tolerating, if not exactly praising, the outrageous egotism.
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