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The Edgar Winter Group: Shock Treatment (Epic PE 32461)

Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1974

EDGAR WINTER was the most unlikely rock star of 1973. For five years we had been led to believe that it was his brother Johnny who was going to make it big but a gold single, 'Frankenstein', and the platinum album from which it was culled, They Only Come Out at Night, have changed all of that.

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