The Sensational Alex Harvey Band at Newcastle
Mick Brown, Sounds, 15 May 1976
I WAS going to say fascism, but as the man said, how could anyone take Hitler seriously without his moustache? What a moustache! Clipped, sharp, black as hell, fundamentally evil, pulling the whole of his face which is otherwise as anonymous as wet pastry into dark and malevolent focus. A moustache that could massacre millions. Alex Harvey's kept falling
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