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It's 1941 and Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson, Band leader, BBC Broadcaster, dancer and singer leaves his lover Gerald Hamilton behind, to make his way to play The Cafe de Paris in . As Ken navigates London’s Blitz torn Soho, believing the venue to be the 'safest place' in London, Ken has no idea what awaits him in the basement of the infamous Cafe de Paris
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Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson, swing band leader, conductor, dancer and BBC broadcaster performs weekly at the BBC whilst leading his band, The West Indian Jazz orchestra. Ken and his band are the house band at the fashionable Cafe de Paris club located in the basement below a cinema in Soho. In March 1941, Ken leaves his lover the infamous Gerald Hamilt…
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