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Maggie Bell Wants to Sound Like Maggie

Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 25 April 1974

NEW YORK — "Maggie Bell the Winner, Just the Beginning" read the banner slung across an enormous horseshoe of red carnations. The flowers were set up in a dressing room at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium where the woman recognized in popular magazine polls as Britain's favorite female singer began her first American tour in four years.

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