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Steve Marriott: Everyone's 'Luv' And 'Mate'

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 September 1966

SHOULD Steve Marriott ever chance to meet royalty it would be safe to assume that within five minutes he would be calling them "luv" and "mate" – for this Pimlico-based Small Face with the turnip-shaped top knot has more chirp than a Cockney sparrow.

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