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To Be Young Gifted And Black by Bob And Marcia enters the UK Singles Chart where it will peak at No5 during a 12-week run. The song, composed by Nina Simone, was inspired by her friend Lorraine Hansberry, author of the play A Raisin In The Sun, who had died in 1965 aged 34.
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