Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan
Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976
TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin appearance makes him resemble more a basketball player.
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