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Welcome to Ray Charles

Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 10 May 1963

THE GENIUS... Messiah... Prophet... High Priest. Big words, and strange words to apply to a singer! But all have been used with religious fervour describing Ray Charles, 30-year-old singer, one of the world's top box-office attractions, who arrives to start his first-ever British tour next Sunday.

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