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Napoleon XIV: Bad Taste?

Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 August 1966

THE VOICE OF Napoleon XIV didn't crackle across the transatlantic 'phone. In fact, it sounded as though he was talking from the other side of London. But the things he was saying had no relation to the things which thousands of people are paying seven shillings and fourpence halfpenny to hear, on a record which has been dubbed "tasteless and offensive".

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