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Underground: The Writing is on the Wall for Pete Brown and Action!

Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968

WAY BACK in 1960 Pete Brown gave everything up to try to make a living writing poetry. Not surprisingly, it wasn't too easy — five years of "complete horror" followed before he was even making enough to live on.

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