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Wilson Pickett: Join Me and Let's Be Free

Cliff White, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975

FIRST OF ALL you have to picture the scene. There he stands, up to his elbows in stagnant water, a faraway look in his eyes, a drowning butterfly on his navel, and three golden orbs mysteriously forming a triangle between his shoulders and chest, asking us to join him and be free.

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