Suicide: Suicide As A Way Of Life
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 5 July 1980
"I THINK," breathes the camp dwarf in the sweatshirt and stubble, "that people should only write songs about economics and sex, because that's all everybody's interested in." I immediately realise that I'm not in the presence of Ahmet Ertegun.
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