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The Animals: Animals Took Liberty With Prison Song

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 February 1966

"WE TOOK A terrible liberty with 'Inside Looking Out'," admits Eric Burdon. "It's the first number we've recorded without a tune. It originates from a Mississippi prison song, the kind of blues we've always wanted to do.

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