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“He was a poet and a prophet…”

I REMEMBER “Move On Up” from the early 1970s, hearing it at discos. But I only really got into Curtis’s music later, around the late ’70s/early ’80s. I was good friends with a great DJ called Ady Croasdell, who made me cassettes  of all Curtis’s solo stuff. That really set me off. The Jam doing “Move On Up” towards the end was probably me going through my full-on Curtis phase.

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