Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 April 1966
SIPPING A CUP of coffee and looking out over the wilds of Shaftesbury Avenue, it was very hard to get Irma Thomas to talk about herself. She'd talk about almost everything else but unlike the great majority of singers was loathe to indulge in too much self-praise or self-criticism.
Total word count of piece: 689
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