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Sun Ra: Flying Saucers Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

Val Wilmer, Melody Maker, 29 October 1966

SUN RA sat in his Lower East Side apartment, surrounded by the weirdest collection of instruments existing outside a museum. A huge plastic canopy, illuminated from within, accounted for all the ceiling space and shed a crimson glow over the pianist who wore an imitation African shirt, a ten-pointed star glinting metallically from his forehead.

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