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- ↑ Cook, Richard (29 January 2007). It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record . Oxford University Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-19-532266-8 . Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- ↑ Sir Compton Mackenzie; Christopher Stone (1956). The Gramophone. C. Mackenzie. Retrieved 20 December 2012.