Former Temptation David Ruffin Dies
Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 11 July 1991
DAVID RUFFIN, a former lead singer for the Temptations, died of a drug overdose in the early-morning hours of June 1st at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. He was fifty years old.
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