‘Nobody is going to beat me’: My sleevenotes for the reissue of I Am The Greatest by Cassius Clay
I was commissioned to write these sleeve-notes by Joe Foster for his label Rev-Ola’s 1998 reissue of I Am The Greatest, the Cassius Clay album pulled from the shelves by Columbia Records amid his championing of civil rights and name change to Muhammad Ali. To those of us who grew up with Ali, whatever our […]