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The "Fun City Sound" Is What's Happening in Rock

Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973

SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling us there were 600,000 up at Watkins Glen reliving Woodstock, there were still a few thousand left in town to see Judy Collins in Central Park, not to mention the 60,000 faithful who went to Madison Square Garden over the space of three nights to cheer Led Zeppelin on.

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