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The Mott Mystique — Does it Mean Death or Glory?

Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 December 1972

THE STORY of how David Bowie's hastily written 'All The Young Dudes' snatched Mott The Hoople from an untimely grave and provided the band with what has been described by many as the single of the year is now history.

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