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Ray Charles: Royal Festival Hall, London

Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 18 June 1983

RESPECT, WE CAME to the massive Hall and paid respect to the blind man who helped shape black music, lived a life of (partly self-inflicted) hell and emerged with his head and limbs intact.

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