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Article: People get ready.(Curtis Mayfield, paralysed in a accident on stage, releases a new recording 'New World Order')(Brief Article)
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- October 14, 1996
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Six years after a crippling spinal injury, soul legend curtis Mayfield returns with a new CD
CURTIS MAYFIELD SAYS HE HAS "phantom hands," hands that seem to move while his own lie immobile. tin his gracious Atlanta home, he speaks in the sweetly penetrating voice of his soul classics, but softer now, tailing away at the ends of sentences. The phantom hands, he says, sometimes worry at the keys of a piano; sometimes they hurt. They are a mystery to him, as is much about his body. "I feel like when I got hit, it knocked everything out of whack," he says. "Now everything is somewhere else. Sometimes it feels that if someone whacked me good another time, it'd knock ...