Twiggy: Royal Festival Hall, London
Fred Dellar, NME, 24 July 1976
I GUESS they popped the champers at Phonogram after this glitzy shindig at the Home of Fest. For hadn't Mike Harding, had 'em clutching at their pheasant-filled tums in laughter? And hadn't li'l ol' Twiggsville bowed off stage carrying more blooms than Roy Carr's had hot platters? Even Clifford T. Ward, like Harding and Twiggs a Phonogram flag-waver of one album's standing, hadn't he gone off to more cheers than Chelsea have heard since they last waved their chequebook?
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