Fela Kuti Plays 'Here Comes the Bride' 27 Times -- Picture Book

Posted on Sep 10th 2010 10:30AM by Pat Pemberton
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Each week, in Picture Book, we present an iconic photo from rock 'n' roll's past or present, accompanied with insightful commentary. Whether it's a famous picture or an unearthed rarity, these striking images will serve to illustrate the visual side of music.

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Fela Kuti, 1979

In 1978, Afrobeat inventor Fela Kuti married 27 women simultaneously, later boasting to a reporter, "I didn't sleep with any women outside my marriage." Still, he had time when this photo was taken a year later to form his own political party, Movement of the People. By the late '80s, he had divorced all his wives, and a decade later he died of AIDS-related complications.

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