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John Martyn: Natural Martyn

Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 12 July 1975

March 2020 Note: At the time, I took his final comments as being just a rough Glaswegian joke. Unfortunately, it seems it was no more than the truth. In her autobiography, Sweet Honesty: The Beverley Martyn Story, published by Grosvenor in 2011, his wife Beverley alleges protracted domestic violence prior to the final breakup of their marriage in the late-1970s.

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