The wisdom of Solomon

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: June 29, 2008| Author: ROBERT CHALMERS | Copyright information

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THE ROBERT CHALMERS INTERVIEW

He's a 30-stone ladies' man with 89 grandchildren; a mortician- turned-preacher who claims to be a king; a friend of Malcolm X who played for the Ku Klux Klan... Ahead of his performance at Glastonbury tonight, Solomon Burke, soul legend, tells his amazing, contradictory life story

"Humility," I ask Solomon Burke, soul legend, mortician and archbishop of The House of God For All People, "is a central pillar of religious faith, is...

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