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NME Chart News Woke Up The Four Tops In Record Time!

Alan Smith, NME, 21 October 1966

THE PHONE rang eleven times in Room 3055 at New York's Hilton Hotel before Lawrence Payton roused himself from his slumbers and dragged it towards him across the bedsheets. "Yeah?" shouted this normally amiable member of the Four Tops. "Who-izz-itt...?"

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