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The Great Unknowns: Jimmy Hughes

Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 22 September 1973

"I NEVER FELT more like singing the blues," sang Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele a long while ago, and both did a lot of business with that one, but it's lucky they didn't go on singing the blues because that music is notoriously lacking in commercial reward.

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