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Zappa’s been workin’ on de railroad...
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Innocents Abroad
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ROD STEWART: Britt’s Flit, Faces Split, Upper Glass Twit?
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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
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NEW YORK—Earl Slick was not only the guitarist whose licks scorched through David Bowie’s Station To Station album (“Anything good on that album is mine,” he says); he had the je ne sais quoi to quit his $3,000 a week gig with Bowie and strike out with a band of his own.