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Marshall Chess: End of the road for the Howlin' Wolfs, Muddies and Sonny Boys

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 February 1965

FROM NOW ON, many of your favourite American rhythm and blues records will appear under a label called Chess. This is owned by two brothers called Leonard and Philip Chess. To launch the label, issued here by Pye, they sent Marshall Chess, son of Leonard.

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