Wreckless Eric: Big Smash!
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 15 March 1980
IT'S HARD to know what to make of little Eric. I'm glad he's there but I'm not sure why. I keep getting this tantalising feeling that he's a fine and original character in quite the wrong vocation. Or perhaps he's one of that rare breed of people whose essence is expressed more in being than doing.
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