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Humble Pie: Black Birds Baked in a Pie

Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972

STEVE MARRIOTT has a dream. A colossal vision of honey-voiced black ladies and a crazy Louisiana sax player, skinny as a wasp and with dynamite in his fingers. The message was delivered last week from a broken down toilet in London's theatreland — Marriott, trousers ballooning at his ankles and chewing on a toasted cheese sandwich.

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