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- ↑ Gamson, Joshua (2005). The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco . Macmillan. ISBN 0805072500.
- ↑ Davis, Sharon (2014). Mighty Real: Sharon Davis Remembers Sylvester. New Romney, England: Bank House Books. p. 63. ISBN 978-0957305892.
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