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Roy Head: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1984

YEAAHHH, MAH man. As a semi-legend, Joan Rivers has nothing on Roy Head, whose '65 smash 'Treat Her Right' remains one of the toughest, most irresistible white soul records ever. In his first local show in 17 years Saturday at the packed Lingerie, Head (who has spent the '70s working in the country arena) gave a performance composed of equal parts bravado and bewilderment.

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