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Manitas de Plata: Little Hands of Silver...

Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971

MANITAS DE PLATA picked up a guitar autographed by Charlie Chaplin and played some flamenco music in his hotel bedroom. It looked a bit like a C major chord with some variations around the top strings. That was the left hand. It was impossible to follow the patterns made by the digits on his right hand.

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