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The football writer as record star

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The football writer as record star

The brilliant jazz writer and sports journalist Richard Williams discovers a fellow-double-header:

I first got to know Philippe Auclair, a Frenchman living in London since 1986, as someone who wrote about football in both French and English with rigour, authority and elegance. His biographies of two celebrated fellow exiles, Eric Cantona and Thierry Henry, are unlikely to be bettered. The elegance I mentioned is the quality he brings to his other career as a musician, using the alias Louis Philippe.

The latest album by Louis Philippe & the Night Mail, The Road to the Sea, is a beauty….

Read on here.

This enchanting clip is from his previous album:

 

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