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Norman Jay: Minister of Sound

Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly, 23 June 2002

It's a long way from illegal raves to Buckingham Palace. But Norman Jay, the godfather of club culture, has been there and done that – he's the first black British DJ to be made an MBE.

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