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Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 23 October 1976

NOW HERE'S what you do for openers. You get someone to blindfold you, put boxing gloves on your hands, tie a maddened rhino to your left foot and a pregnant elephant to your right and then sit you backwards on a 750cc Harley opened all the way up.

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