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Creem Reflects Detroit Rock 'n' Roll And Tries to Direct 'the Monster'

Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970

ROCK 'N' ROLL has always had its own journalistic field. The teen magazines used to tell us about Paul Anka's nose job and Elvis Presley's hips. Those publications still exist, but with the evolution of a rock sub-culture has come the new rock journalism.

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