The Hermit Trembles: Peter Noone Looks Back
John Mendelsohn, Creem, December 1980
ON A WARM, smoggy Saturday morning on the verge of September, this journal's man on the West Coast called on Peter Noone, who, from farther than an arm's length away, appears not to have aged two weeks in the decade and a half since he led Herman's Hermits to the very apogee of adolescent acclaim.
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