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Love Story: Alone Again, or Arthur Lee

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1997

HIGH UP in Laurel Canyon, with all of Los Angeles spread out around him, Arthur Lee would sit and stare and contemplate death – "sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die," as he sang it in 'The Red Telephone', the brilliantly creepy song that concluded Side One of Love’s Forever Changes.

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