I'm sitting in a bar with the unmistakable – and most welcome – opening bars of Curtis Mayfield's 'Superfly' cutting through the Muzakal mix.
As this year draws to a close in which we are remembering so many musical greats who have been taken from us, maybe we should also find time to recall Mayfield, a genius who died in 1999 at the age of 57, nine years after being almost totally paralysed when lighting equipment fell on him.
He was a beautiful singer, an innovative songwriter and a great musician. And his legacy runs through so much of what followed, including the work of many of those famous names who died in 2016.
If you haven't already... listen to him.
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