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The real-life Jumpin' Jack Flash: how David Litvinoff shook the '60s

Jon Savage, The Guardian, 19 January 2016

He inspired Mick Jagger, fought with Lucian Freud and shared lovers with Ronnie Kray. But David Litvinoff's taste for danger would take him into the darkest corners of swinging London. Now a new book tells the story of this brilliant enigma.

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