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LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Louis In London

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WHEN Louis Armstrong arrived in Britain in 1968 for a cabaret residency at the Batley Variety Club, he wasn’t exactly hip in a brave new world that had just discovered the transgressive pleasures of psychedelia and headbanging blues-rock. Who was this old

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