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Nina Simone: Moody Dues

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 14 November 1987

JAPANESE TOURISTS frantically snapping photographs of each other is a recurring scenario common to the lobbies of Europe's grandest hotels. Today is different. Stepping from the lift of Montreux's Eden au Lac, I am confronted by the majestic presence of black music diva, Nina Simone.

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