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4 March 2020updated 05 Mar 2020 10:07am

Pete Paphides’s Broken Greek: a striking memoir of immigration and music

Music journalist Paphides tells the immigrant’s story with clarity and tenderness.

By Alan Johnson

Which two things connect Greek Cypriot immigrants Stavros Georgiou, Kyriacos Panayiotou and Christakis Paphides?

The first is the more prosaic. They all ran catering establishments. The second is their place in rock ’n’ roll history. All three fathered sons who have made an enormous contribution to pop music – Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam), George  Michael and Pete Paphides.

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