Tavares: Sky High Tavares
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 August 1976
THOUGH Tavares are scoring for the first time in Britain with 'Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel', the quintet of brothers has been together as a performing band for the past 14 years, gradually working their way upwards from the lounge circuit and transforming into a band who regularly scored hits on the US soul charts but never quite managed to cross over into the pop market until recently.
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