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B.J. Thomas: Songs

Simon Frith, Let It Rock, October 1973

REMEMBER ALL THE excitement when people discovered that the Beatles wrote their own songs? There have been a lot of bridges over a lot of troubled waters since then, the message more and more strident: a real rock musician sings his own songs, sincerely.

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