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A Calypso Now!

Richard Cook, NME, 26 September 1981

Taj Mahal, Desperadoes: Hammersmith Odeon, London

WITH VIV Stanshall confining himself to introductions, we were given two personalisations of black music, and an expected affinity proved instead an actuality leagues apart.

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