After finding that clipping, I looked up the person who wrote it, Sylvie Simmons, and came across this excellent feature on her years as L.A. correspondent for a host of rock magazines in the late 70s / early 80s - on the BBC radio website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010dd43
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010dd43
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