Winger: 'I Want The Cover Of Kerrang!'
Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 16 December 1989
At the end of a 190 date world tour, WINGER retired to Australia to crack a few tubes, catch a few rays, and laze around on the beach. But our man STEVE MASCORD rode in on his turbo-nutter-bastard surfboard to ask a few rude questions and spoil all that. With Santa approaching faster than a shark following a speedboat barbi off Bondi Beach, young Steve asks the mainman what, of everything in the whole world, he most wants for Christmas... Quick as a flash, ol' KIP WINGER whinges...
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