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Kid Creole: Fresh Fruit in Downtown Manhattan

Paul Rambali, The Face, June 1981

A CHECKER CAB pulls up at the corner of MacDougal and 7th; out of it steps Mr. Michael Zilkha. The cab is yellow with a check flash, just like his record label, ZE Records.

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