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John Mayall: This Is Where I Came In

Mat Snow, Q, August 1990

The Flamingo in Soho, 1964: bearded disciples and pilled-up mods are packed into an airless basement. Brooms are being dusted, mojos worked, as the Hohner-huffing godfather of British Blues embarks upon a long and capricious crusade… John Mayall returns to visit a few old haunts. And he's borrowed Mat Snow's A-Z

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