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Bill Sykes: Sit Down, Listen To This! – The Roger Eagle Story/Pat Long: The History Of The NME

Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, October 2012

THE LATE Roger Eagle was an enigma. Born in Oxford into a middle class family during the Second World War, like many others of his generation he became captivated by rock'n'roll and blues music in the 1950s. Unlike, many others he went onto live something of "a rock'n'roll lifestyle".

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