Tina Turner: If This Is Vegas, Give Me More
Cliff White, NME, 18 February 1978
JANUARY, Millie Jackson; February, Tina Turner; soon to come, Gladys Knight...gee whizz, can it all be too much for this white boy? No, no, no; gimme more, more. Like the man said (James Brown course), "Too much is rough, but it's better than dying from something that you never had."
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