How Rotten for Daphne

by Angus Shaw · February 23, 2015

Love him or hate him. Billy Conolly: How Rotten For Daphne from his album A Change is as Good as a Rest.

“It was so long ago, it was as if it never happened at all…”
Listen to the audio clip for the rest.

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