Ted Nugent: Ted Nugent
Max Bell, NME, 19 June 1976
ONCE UPON A TIME the idea of liking Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes was considered remarkably unhip. Poor old Ted and his boys were the butt of many a knowing jest, usually based around their supposed ineptitude and crass handling of some of rock 'n' roll's... uh... more simple trademarks.
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