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Willie Nelson: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 9 June 1982

IT IS TRUE what they say about things being bigger in Texas. You could wrap up a jumbo jet in the flag of the Lone Star state which hangs above the stage when Willie Nelson performs; and while Nelson himself is actually rather small in stature — a thin, wizened man with a preposterous Geronimo haircut — his success is enormous.

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