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Mickey Jupp: The Lost Legends of Southend Rock

Max Bell, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975

Down where the fag-end of London slopes into the sea, there lies the forgotten land of Southend, home of the whelk stall and source of some of the best British music to come out of the sixties. Not to mention the seventies. MAX BELL journeys to the shrine to talk to MICKEY JUPP, musical zen master and local R&B hero number one, to discover...

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