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The Trials of Jackie Wilson

Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 18 November 1976

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey — Since September 1975, Jackie Wilson has lain in a series of southern New Jersey hospitals, intravenously fed and unable to move or communicate. The prognosis is bad: chances are slim that he'll ever walk or talk again, much less sing.

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