Bill Withers: Leanin' On Bill Withers
Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 26 August 1972
THAT OLD saying "never too late" is certainly true in the case of Bill Withers. Withers is just about the hottest male singer in America right now. In just a year he's notched up a couple of million selling singles and a couple of equally as successful albums. The staggering thing is that Withers didn't decide until two years ago, at the age of 31, that he was going to be a singer.
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