The Nice: Coalition Music
Keith Altham, Fusion, 6 March 1970
The Nice are perhaps one of the most controversial groups on the pop music scene today. Praised by many for relieving us from the excesses of guitar-oriented heavy rock they are condemned by others for relying too heavily on theatricality and riffs stolen from Bach.
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