The Mamas and The Papas: Mamas And Papas Have A Feud On Their Hands
Keith Altham, NME, 8 July 1967
"SOMEONE has just shot our gardener – I can't speak to you just now. Come up tomorrow," invited a harassed John Phillips, of the Mamas and Papas, when I spoke to him on the phone from my Beverly Hills Hotel.
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