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Rolling Stone Magazine: Ripples from the Stone

Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 25 March 1969

FEW REVIEWS can make a first-rank artist doubt his ability at the height of his success. At this level, critics can rarely do more than look up and admire, or snipe. You may have thought that pop magazines were in the market only to bend with the commercial winds. In that case, you'll not have seen Rolling Stone.

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