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Leon Russell: Powerstation, Auckland

Graham Reid, Elsewhere, April 2011

BECAUSE WE KNOW keyboard players do their work sitting down, few would have been worried when Leon Russell – 69, walking with a cane – was gently guided to his seat at his electric keyboard. The second he hit the opening chords of 'Delta Lady' any doubts were assuaged.

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