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Breaking the rules: Timmy Thomas

Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, May 1973

IN THE American record business, like any other, it’s the biggies with the bread that rule the roost. But every so often, an obscure record by an unknown artist on an independent label explodes into the upper reaches of the national chart, spreading from the city where it initially broke out.

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