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Before This Record, We Were Just What You'd Call 'Bums' Say The Foundations

Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 11 November 1967

IT'S ENOUGH to make psychedelia and Flower Power turn in its grave. I mean, how dare a group like the Foundations have the effrontery to go to the top of the hit parade with their very first record when they're not all particularly young, pretty, or even hippy. Surprise, surprise.

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