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PETER MASON recommends an exhibition of album covers by the legendary Mighty Sparrow which catalogues turbulent times

Sparrow Come Back at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London SW1

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THE ICA’S new Sparrow Come Back exhibition works around a novel idea, that of transforming dozens of album covers by the great calypsonian Mighty Sparrow into LP-sized ceramic tiles, arranged around two walls as if in an old-fashioned record shop.

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