The Nice: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Mark Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969
THE NICE are the most successful British group to have achieved fame without a single in the top ten. The future is surer for them, therefore, than for the Fleetwood Mac or even someone like the Marmalade.
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