Nigel Kennedy
John Lewis, Metro, April 2007
IT COMES AS something of a surprise to discover that Nigel Kennedy, the punky enfant terrible of British classical music, has just turned 50. That doesn't stop him greeting visitors with a complicated handshake and calling "touch me, mon" in a cod-Jamaican accent, or inserting the word "muthafucka" into every other sentence. Nor has it stopped him from his lifelong pursuit of experimenting with new forms of music.
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