Tom Waits: Subterranean Low-Life Blues
Chris Roberts, Sounds, 19 October 1985
"THE COOLEST PERSON I ever met was definitely Shaw. It was a bleak autumn afternoon when Shaw thumped me in the 12-years-old ribcage and said, 'Let's go and throw these stupid javelins at some sheep.' I said, 'OK, Shaw'."
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