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I remember a professor describing him.

He's basically a male beyonce. Women tried to steal his underwear. He broke a hand? Arm? and did a virtuoso performance with just one hand.

The world went crazy. I don't fully get it to this day. (never been that much of a piano lover)

yuck.

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I don't get the 'yuck'. Everything else you wrote is more-or-less on the mark. He was a known celebrity. Although to a degree, we need to remember this isn't Beyonce appearing before stadiums of tens of thousands fans, but rather concert halls of about few hundreds at most. But in those days terms, it was mega stardom.

> basically a male beyonce

High praise indeed!

I'm not thinking style, or quality of music, but stardom. If this was the late 80's we'd use Madonna, or the mid-60's Beatles etc.

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