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Allan Jones: Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'roll War Stories

Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, August 2017

THE AGE OF DEFERENCE had yet to lapse when I joined Melody Maker in 1970. Four years later, when Allan Jones joined the paper, it was withering on the vine, rendered obsolete by the New Musical Express writers Nick Kent and Charles Shaar Murray.

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