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John Martyn: Inside Out (Island)

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973

YOU COULD SAY that the post-decadence rock scene is structured rather like the society of ants: a hangover of old drones twittering away behind last year's plump queens – and a few lean workers here and there trying to rebuild the crumbling termitary.

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