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Phil Manzanera: Vozero

Rick McGrath, Culture Court, January 2001

PHIL MANZANERA has always held an interesting, if somewhat obscure spot on the periphery of British guitar legends. Born Philip Targett-Adams, he traveled extensively as a child, his father's job taking him to southern climes such as Havana and Peru, where young Phil took up the guitar at age eight and learned to play the local Latino stuff before returning to England and public school.

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