Archie Bell and the Drells Still Dance All Night
John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 8 April 1976
NEW YORK Archie Bell interrupts his rushed, businesslike replies for a moment and works up the faintest trace of a smile: "I didn't know what it feels like to work behind a hit record. We're doing things now I never had a chance to experience; the group had to tell me about it."
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