I thought of you when I read this quote from "Music Is History" by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson -
"The events spun into pop culture, specifically pop music. Bob Dylan had a song out about George Jackson by November 1971, in two versions: one “Big Band,” one solo acoustic. One of the backup singers on the Big Band version was Jo Armstead, who had been an Ikette, a backup singer for Ike and Tina Turner, and gone on to write hits with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, including “Let’s Go Get Stoned.” Later in life, after leaving the music industry, Armstead managed a boxer named Alfonso Ratliff, who in September 1986 lost by TKO to a twenty-year-old Mike Tyson, six months away from becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history, and five and a half years away from going to prison himself. History."
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