The Isley Brothers: Between the Sheets (Epic)
Richard Cook, NME, 9 July 1983
SOME SOUL groups have their own continuum. If a senior vocal unit like The Temptations has to suffer a producer's — and hence a popular — whim to keep abreast, an organisation of sound like The Isley Brothers only have to shuffle their family deck.
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