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Johnny Kidd: 3 Years Ago This Month

Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 18 October 1969

HE WAS BORN plain Fred Heath. He changed his name to Johnny Kidd and became one of our finest rock 'n' rollers. And he was killed in a car smash, on his way to a cabaret date in this month of October, three years ago.

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