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Mike Butler

Mike Butler - born in Middlesbrough 1958; a record retailer in Camden Town, 1980-83; edits arts zine GRR!, 1987-1991; as City Life's jazz correspondent he interviews Nina Simone (twice!) and Sun Ra, 1989-2009; hundreds of his musician interviews appear in Metro, 1999-2009; discovers the missing verse of 'A Whiter Shade of Pale, 1994; promotes tours by Texas singing lawyer Abner Burnett, 1997-2001; helms Manchester Jazz Society, 2010-present.