The King of Afropea: David Byrne
Andy Farquarson, Independent, The, 11 June 2000
"Isn't this where the Profumo thing started?" someone asks. We're soaking up the seedy mock-opulence of The Eve Club on Regent Street and, for the second time in an hour, I'm trawling my memories of the 60s scandal.
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