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Bob Lind: Finding You Again

Mick Houghton, Uncut, December 2012

Solid return from American singer-songwriter who penned 'Elusive Butterfly'".

Bob Lind's last studio album, Since There Were Circles, was released back in 1971. It flopped and Lind returned to the life of heavy drinking and drug use he'd fallen into following the international success of 'Elusive Butterfly' in 1966. Unnerved by the trappings of sudden fame, Lind explained in 2007: "I just didn't like being part of a system where you had to have hit records for the business to stay interested in you."

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