British rockstar drummer Ginger Baker died this past weekend at age 80. Host Marco Werman takes a couple minutes to spotlight one aspect of Baker’s passion for the drums: the time he spent in Nigeria studying percussion from music legend Fela Kuti, and how that led — indirectly — to a massively successful album by a former Beatle.
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