Four Tops Don't Walk Away Ever!
Gavin Martin, NME, 6 February 1982
MY FIRST TASTE of Motown music was many summers ago as I mulled away my school holidays in a sort of passive ignorance, more interested in fishing, football and go-carts than the strength and spine tingling magic that lay waiting to be unearthed in some of the most formidable records ever made.
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