Rare Earth: The Best of Rare Earth (Motown)
Simon Warner, PopMatters, 6 February 2001
MOTOWN'S GOLDEN decade – over 100 US Top Ten hits in the Sixties – was as steady and profitable as the Detroit auto plant conveyor belts that ran close to Hitsville – and, some may say, as predictable.
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