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Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

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Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

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If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

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I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

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I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

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I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

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I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

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I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

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I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

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I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: June 21st, 1944

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