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Mary Wells: Albany, Deptford, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 31 May 1984

MARY WELLS made one mistake in her career almost 20 years ago and has been paying for it ever since. Wells was Motown's first international star, but it was only when she left the company and her career immediately went into a steady decline, that she found how indispensable to her success the Motown production line techniques had been.

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