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Rock Folk, Michael Lydon; Feel Like Going Home, Peter Guralnick; The Rolling Stone Interviews

Charlie Gillett, Creem, March 1972

WHEN DOES the interviewer become PR man? Or vice-versa. It's depressing how often rock papers, in Britain and in the States, are prepared to let promo men do interviews for them; and equally depressing, how often rock papers use their own staff as no more than blunted prods for star egos.

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