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Alan Frey, our US manager, was really upset and kept asking Steve to think about it, and that we could carry on. Actually, the rest of us knew Steve had vocalised what had been obvious for some months. So it wasn't a case of persuading him otherwise - we already agreed, reluctantly or not. But it was a sad time for us because we’d been such a good band for a while back there…
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was recorded, Bob was no longer in the band, and that late, lovely man, Nicky
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Life trundled on and we did various gigs and festivals as the Rumour, but by mutual agreement, we were no longer playing with Graham. Later in 1981, the
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and, happily, broadcast live across Europe on TV! It was a great one to finish with, and the commercially unavailable video proves it!
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