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LIFE is full of surprises. While attending a large bird show, I struck up a conversation with the wife of the judge who, unusually, had come to the show seeing as her husband had been provided a hotel room by the club. As we hadn’t met before, we talked about her South Coast home, which led to me relating my trips there in my youth to watch my favourite R&B bands. One of my all-time heroes was

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