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THE OVERALL GAME were a rock & roll unit formed from the remnants of a youthful Surrey-based music group, the Secrets, where business lead guitarist Terry Spencer and bassist Allen Janaway had previously played. Tony Parrot, who was simply 14 at that time, performed rhythm electric guitar. Their big issue …

Malawi-born Tony Bird was effecting an assortment of contemporary Western musical designs with traditional African types a decade before Paul Simon was have you ever heard about mbaqanga. Though his superb ’70s recordings proceeded to go overlooked, the surge appealing in African play the past due ’80s got him back …