Steve Winwood: Goodbye Mr Fantasy, Hello Midland Maniac
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 7 May 1977
THE SIXTIES are very much alive in Ladbroke Grove these days. Tucked away in the back of Island's Basing Street Studios, swinging London gently reverberates inside a flat that once belonged to Chris Blackwell.
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