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Aden: Centre Of 1970s Pop Music

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Mar 032010
 

“Tina Charles… I loved her very much!”

We sat in the back of the taxi not quite believing our ears. In this dusty bowl populated mostly by men, or groups of women covered from head to toe in black, the last subject we expected to be discussing was 1970s pop.
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 Posted by Liz at 15:45  Tagged with: aden, bab el mandeb, disco, drink, food, piracy, pirates, qat, sailing, tina charles, yemen

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