“I’VE BEEN IN PLACES WHERE I’VE BROKE MY RIBS AND RATS WERE CRAWLING OVER MY BODY”

It’s May 1992 and Arthur Lee, founder of Love and composer of 1967’s Forever Changes, is in London to play a one-off show and promote his first new record in 10 years. Steve Sutherland pays homage

I’m sitting in Arthur Lee’s breakfast. Yup, you read that right. I am actually sitting in Arthur Lee’s breakfast. He’s just grabbed me and hauled me down beside him onto the bed to have a photo taken and I land on a plate which is holding a steakwich he’s been eating. Mr. Lee either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care that his breakfast is now stuck to my arse so what the heck? I sit it out until the snap gets taken before we part our ways. Our meet had begun a little later than planned an hour or so ago, as Mr. Lee had ventured out of his hotel onto Ladbroke Grove to find a, “tobacco shop.” When he arrives back in the lobby, he cuts a striking figure, tall,…

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