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Black and white photograph of folk music producer Bill Leader with Nathan Joseph at Olympic Studios, some time in the 1960's

Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century

By Mike Butler | 30 September 2023Culture

When music critic Mike Butler discovered a folk legend in Manchester’s midst it was the beginning of much more than an adventure in sound.

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