Paul Morley's Showing Off: AR Rahmen

A superstar film composer visits Showing Off HQWaiting for AR Rahman to arrive at Showing Off headquarters, I imagine some kind of powerful, glamorous giant will arrive, swathed in ego, surrounded by adoring entourage, encrusted in diamonds, trailing mist, ribbons and glitter behind him. I will need to bow in his presence, and the idea of asking about world music seems particularly preposterous. He's a superstar composer who conquered the rest of the world from a position of dominance within his...

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