Them
Keith Altham, NME, 14 May 1965
I CAN'T say that it came as a surprise to find that – after three cancelled appointments with Them – they were not at the premises in London's Berwick Street rehearsing. They have a natural talent for not being in the right place at the right time. Someone had apparently omitted to mention that their proposed rehearsal room was being transformed into a strip club. Them had moved on to a pub in Brewer Street some streets away.
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