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Traffic: Dear Mr Fantasy

Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 3 March 1973

THE FIRST ENCORE at the Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, started with Jim Capaldi up front, his face pressed hard against a microphone to ring out the lyrics to 'Light Up Or Leave Me Alone'. Out in the circular auditorium, 13 thousand people left their seats and shimmied limp-armed to the bed-spring rhythm.

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