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Curtis Mayfield: Commonwealth Institute, London

Richard Williams, The Times, 27 June 1983

A TRIUMPH OF experience over environment, Curtis Mayfield's return to London on Friday night was a tribute to the enduring worth of the generation of big-city soul singers and composers which emerged 20 years ago and whose work has threaded its way through the warp and woof of pop fashion ever since.

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