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Lord Sitar

Lord Sitar has been played on NTS shows including Record Store Rotation: Rough Trade, with If I Were A Rich Man first played on 19 May 2015.

Lord Sitar was the alias for renowned session musician and guitar virtuoso Big Jim Sullivan who, in 1966/67, found himself in the enviable position of being the only established session guitarist in England to own a sitar. By 1967, that attribute had turned him into a valuable commodity, mostly because of the instrument's being popularized by George Harrison of the Beatles and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones on various of their respective groups' recordings.

Sullivan had already…

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I Am The Walrus
Lord Sitar
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I Am The Walrus
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Emerald City
Lord Sitar
Columbia1968
Emerald City
Lord SitarColumbia1968
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If I Were A Rich Man
Lord Sitar
Columbia1968
If I Were A Rich Man
Lord SitarColumbia1968
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