Rick James: Blowing Out Tinsel Town
Lloyd Bradley, NME, 10 April 1982
Not So Long Ago:
THERE WAS a time when nearly everybody in the world owned a Motown record. Motown was like a baby's security blanket, warm, familiar, comforting and safe.
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