Tom Waits: London, Victoria Apollo
Andy Gill, NME, 28 March 1981
TOM WAITS, sad to say, has now joined the illustrious pantheon of artistes whose performances have driven me to sleep. Sad, because this is the first time it's happened involuntarily, the first time I haven't actually wanted to go to sleep. And it's all down to the myth.
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