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Mott The Hoople: Top Rank Suite, Birmingham, England

Mark Leviton, Phonograph Record, November 1972

YOU'D THINK that a group with a top ten record in Britain ('All The Young Dudes'), associated with David Bowie to boot, would have no problem selling out a place which holds maybe 2,000. Well, Mott pulled in about 900 devotees and laid down an unbelievable set of hard, assertive rock.

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