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Love and happiness: In the pews of Al Green's church in Memphis

Love and happiness: In the pews of Al Green's church in Memphis

With the soul legend himself, aged 77, singing and preaching and sounding magnificent

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Feb 26, 2024
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The Rev Al Green, circa 1972, from the cover of his Greatest Hits album

In an unfamiliar city it is rarely a good sign when your burly African-American taxi driver says: “I wouldn’t be driving you in this neighbourhood if it was dark.”

We are in Memphis, the most violent city in America. There were 397 homicides here last year in a population two-thirds t…

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