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Stuck in a slow moving traffic queue on the A90 last Friday I negotiated for 'Last Word' to be put on the radio, and then the final obituary was of someone I had not heard of in decades. This track I have on a vinyl LP I bought in 1972, a folk sampler called 'Club Folk' and it is only as you grow old with an album that you realise the gems it contains:
With a name like Nadia I always thought she came from much further east than Belize, and I didn't know she was mother to Mike Lindup, keyboard player for Level 42. In fact it took me off on a Wikipedia wander that included Sly and Robbie, Johnny Dankworth and the sad realisation that I had missed an R I P for Boon, but at least I no longer feel guilty about liking Level 42.