Ten Years of Stage Fright: The Life And Times Of Robbie Robertson & The Band
Mick Farren, NME, 17 June 1978
ALTHOUGH AT the time individuals may tell you different, it's no big deal for a band to break up. It happens almost every week and, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the split happens against a back-ground of acrimony, fist fights, law suits and all the other symptoms of bad blood and evil feeling that get covered by the blanket euphemism of "musical differences".
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