Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: From The Beginning…
Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972
SMOKEY IS LEAVING the Miracles. This may mean more to those of us in Detroit, who've watched the Miracles almost, but never quite, make the break into the Top Forty success that they always deserved, over the last fourteen years, than it does to anyone else but it is a significant event.
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