The Flamin' Groovies
John Tobler, Blank Space, 1978
"HOW DO these punks stop the bleeding when they stick pins through their flesh?" enquired a somewhat bemused Cyril Jordan, spending a fast three days in London at the end of a much longer period spent at Rockfield Studio, where the Flamin' Groovies had just finished their latest (and greatest) album.
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