Nina Simone
Precious Williams, Big Issue, The, December 1998
NINA SIMONE is furious that there is no alcohol left in the house. It's not even 11 o'clock in the morning and yet the 65-year-old jazz legend has already drunk a whole bottle of Baileys.
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