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AUDIO: Grand Wizzard Theodore (1998)

Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages audio, 2 October 1998

The pioneering hip hop DJ talks about his early days, acting as Grandmaster Flash's record boy; playing his first party in 1975 with the L Brothers; inventing needle drops and scratching; the emergence of the rapping MC; the move downtown and out into the wider world, and the pleasures of touring Japan!

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