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Motown Making Millions

Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 1 May 1972

Author's update, 2019. "The Manchester Guardian? That's the best fuckin' newspaper in the world!" So David Crosby told me in early 1969. He had answered the telephone when I rang and asked to come and see him, Steven Stills and Graham Nash at the small flat they had rented in London's Moscow Road, off Queensway, above a Laundromat, and explained where I was coming from. So I was welcomed, and George Harrison turned up and they all played and sang together.

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