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The Strange Life Of The Incredible Bongo Band

James Maycock, Daily Telegraph, June 2001

THE TALE OF the Incredible Bongo Band is, aptly, an improbable one. With a highly eclectic cast that includes Bobby Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, Lennon & Ringo, a hip hop DJ from the Bronx plus a little help from the B-movie, Thing With Two Heads, the career of this musical unit was - perhaps more than most - sculpted by the bizarre machinations of chance.

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