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Four Top A Week: Laurence Payton, The Quiet One

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1967

LAURENCE the Top has a homely round face, honest, open eyes, and a liking for big shirts with big collars. He sits with his dark hands clasped tightly around a glass of Coke, holding it reverently like a man about to sip the rarest of fine brandies.

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