Nina Simone: Here Comes Trouble
Lloyd Bradley, Q, November 1991
"BE PUNCTUAL," they implored. "Be punctual, and everything should be all right." Ask about Nina Simone at her publisher's offices and you'll soon be appraised of the relationship between tardiness and the musician's volatile temper.
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