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The Duke & the King: Union Chapel, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 April 2010

"AIN'T NO DUST CLOUD from heaven can keep us from our congregation! Can I get an 'amen'?" demands the Duke & the King's leader, Simone Felice. The audience's "amen" is polite more than zealous, but it passes muster with the upstate New Yorker. His band play the first notes of 'If You Ever Get Famous', from debut album Nothing Gold Can Stay, and from then on, the congregation were believers and the Union Chapel felt like the church it once was.

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