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Stuck Inside A Mobile

With those Memphis blues again, even, because whatever else the times may be doing around here they certainly aren't a' changing. Consider: Dylan due, the Stones top of the pops, a new album from the Moody Blues and, worst of all, a rhythm 'n' blues revival! It seems (haven't actually seen them myself) that there are great hordes of 60's survivors who've never emerged from their sweaty memories of the days when men were men and sat in cellars keeping cool and counting the Elmore James riffs—the good days of British beat before it got popular and girls were allowed in.

September 1, 1978
Simon Frith

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