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Chicago: What Do You Think They'll Call Their Seventh Album?

John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, February 1973

It all began when, after my particularly scathing review of Chicago V appeared in the October Crawdaddy, I received the following telegram from Bobby Lamm, Chicago's principal songwriter:

"Welcome to the bandwagon," the telegram declared. "Nothing could be quite as banal as a negative Chicago review. I would have thought you would have understood."

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