The Mothers of Invention: If You Get A Headache…
Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 1966
MOTHERS AND fathers, you thought the Beatles were bad. You got up in arms about the Rolling Stones. Sonny and Cher made you cringe. Well, as the man said, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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