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Solomon Burke: Cost of Solomon's Cadillac: a couple of songs and two good funerals...

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 June 1965

THE LARGE, smiling, splendid man in the picture is called Mr. Solomon Burke. He is 25. His wife is called Dolores Othello and they have 10 children: six singles and two lots of twins.

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