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Edgar Broughton: Meet Edgar The Agitator

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 January 1970

BOUNCERS ARE one of the bad old traditions of pop music, with roots reaching back through the 'Rock Around the Clock' riots to the Sinatra swooners of the forties and even as far back as the ladies who used to mob Rudolph Valentino. They're a tradition Edgar Broughton thinks we can do without now.

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