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Nicky Hopkins: Rock's Secret Weapon

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019

SESSION PLAYERS are usually unheralded, often uncredited. If you bought the albums The Who Sing My Generation or the Kinks' Face to Face, or the singles 'Revolution' or 'She's a Rainbow,' it probably didn't occur to you to wonder who was behind the keyboards, but one musician was on all those records and on hundreds more.

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