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Mar 2022
34m 5s

Questlove

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Fresh from his Oscar’s nomination, Zane chats to Questlove about his documentary ‘Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’, the significance of 1969, ‘code switching’ of black artists, how the festival was almost erased from history and teases his new Sly and the Family Stone project. 
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