Nashville Revisited
Cynthia Rose, NME, 11 August 1984
This summer an 82 year-old former boxer, shoeshine boy and burlesque costumier from Brooklyn died in Los Angeles. His name was Nudie Cohen and he passed onto his widow Bobby and daughter Barbara a tailor shop in North Hollywood which bears his name.
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