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Henry Cow: Just Happy Playing Their Music

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973

HENRY COW, a quintet formed at Cambridge University five years ago, are probably best known — though the group themselves would rather forget it — as the winners of John Peel's "Rockortunity Knocks" competition on Top Gear in 1971.

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