I've never been as disappointed by a music bio/auto-bio as I was when reading the Bernard Purdie one; it's hard to know what the book was even trying to be – it's written in third person but claims to be an autobiography, there's no attempt to even 'get' Purdie's voice, there's no real attempt to hide the fact that this isn't even an as-told-to tale but…
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