Almost Famous –An Appreciation Of Larry Wallis
ALMOST FAMOUS –AN APPRECIATION OF LARRY WALLIS May 1949 – September 2019 I can still remember the first time I saw Larry in the flesh – it was...
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1968 Brit-Psych B-Sides
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1967 Brit-Psych B-Sides
The mode of the music changed, the walls of the cities shook, rooms hummed harder, ceilings flew away. In his 1965 poem, ‘Who Be Kind To?’, the preeminent...