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Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Astoria, London

David Sinclair, The Times, 19 October 1987

AT 9.10 ON Friday night a lean young man called Milton Smith sat down behind a white Sonor drum-kit and began teasing out a gritty, medium-slow funk rhythm on bass drum, snare and hi-hat.

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