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BB Kings of the ring; SOUL POWER 12A.


The epic collision of heavyweights in Zaire when Muhammad Ali and George Foreman battled it out for the world title has inspired a welter of tributes.

Known as The Rumble In The Jungle, the Jungle, The

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 story of the 1974 fight was retold re·told  
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Past tense and past participle of retell.
 blow-for-blow in Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings.

Johnny Wakelin also had a chart hit with the song In Zaire and there's another musical connection with Soul Power, a documentary of the soul music concert that was staged in Kinshasa, Zaire, as part of the build-up to the big fight.

As you might expect the stars involved are knock-out... James Brown, Sister Sledge, BB King, Bill Withers withers

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 and Miriam Makeba.

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Publication:Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Jul 5, 2009
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