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Coke-and-lemon beat and smiles for one whole hour

Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970

Having moaned so long about the failure of British radio, TV, and record buyers to give the due recognition to black singers, I suppose I should be very happy to come back from the States to find five in the Top Ten. But all those records mean is that Britain still favours junk-pop, even if it has to come from black singers.

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