As a working-class artist, growing up in north London, he realised that “my lyrics were my only power”. The music business was corrupt and he decided to take them on with his LP ‘Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part 1’.
Tuesday 27 November on BBC Radio 4’s Mastertapes at 1530 GMT
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