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Michael Berkeley

I was always aware He was working every morning in his study, and he would show me what he was working on and I got very intrigued by it. I was improvising at the piano from the age of six or seven, and I remember my mother saying to him, ‘Would Michael ever be any good?’ Lennox said, ‘He might, but he’s going to have to do a hell of a lot more work!’ And he was right.

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