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I’m with the band: who knew Antony Blinken could play rock classics?

The US secretary of state, who performed with a Kyiv band in a bar this week, is the latest musically inclined politician to hit the stage

After spending a day in the Ukrainian capital promising aid for the country’s war effort, the US secretary of state went to a bar where he picked up a red guitar and joined the band 19.99 on stage. To be fair, it wasn’t about Blinken’s playing but because of a communications mix-up: he told the Today programme he thought the secret celebrity joining them on stage was going to be … Neil Young! Ugly Rumours, who played legendary rock venues such as Corpus Christi College Oxford before splitting up after just six shows.

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