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Lee Dorsey: The Star in Greasy Overalls

Gavin Martin, Record Collector, October 2011

IT'S 1980; six years before Lee Dorsey's unexpected death, but his recording career is already over. What will prove to be his last album, Night People, was released in the US in 1978, and tonight in Philadelphia, his final tour of musical duty, supporting The Clash, is drawing to a close.

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