The Temptations
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From The 'Perfect Society' Emerge The Temptations
Interview by Eden, KRLA Beat, 27 August 1966
THE TEMPTATIONS are another of the fine Motown groups... but they are not just another group! Five talented and witty individuals involved in the creation ...
Obituary by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 26 November 1992
Singer died after battle with lung cancer ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2009
FIFTY YEARS AGO this month in Detroit, a 29-year-old African-American songwriter named Berry Gordy, Jr – a former boxer, autoworker, and Army veteran – borrowed ...
Can You Put A Name To The Temptations?
Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 September 1969
I'VE ALWAYS had the feeling that although the Temptations have enjoyed good record sales in this country, they've never quite made it as people with ...
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 March 1967
Wives taught us to dance — FOUR TOPS ...
Temps Aren't Puppets of Motown
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 7 February 1970
ARE SOME of Tamla Motown's artists "Monkees of Soul"... professional acts who seem so puppet-like and programmed that they hardly come across as real people? ...
Super Star Diana Right To Quit Supremes Say Temptations
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 January 1970
ONLY THE absence of 'flu-bound Eddie Kendricks took the edge off the Temptations' arrival in Britain at the weekend, but the rest of them were ...
Motowners have Racial Problems
Report by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
SINCE SO many Motown artists are currently in the British charts, I thought I might pass on some things about them that have been circulating ...
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Radio Times, 2005
FOR SOME PEOPLE, the terms "Soul" and "Motown" are almost synonymous. When they think of soul music, timeless sounds and images of the Supremes and ...
The Temptations' Final Frontier
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, August 2001
MOTOWN KING BERRY GORDY was royally miffed. None of his subjects could come up with a hit for the act many considered the finest in ...
Motown No Longer Lures Temptations Vet
Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 September 1986
Chill reheated career but Kendrick has bad memories ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 March 1976
NEW YORK: A four-act show always runs the risk of dragging, even when the organisation is as meticulous as it was last Saturday at the ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 29 November 1975
IT'S COMFORTING TO have a few acts that you can rely on to keep supplying the goods, and The Temps certainly do deliver. ...
Interview by Cliff White, Black Music, December 1978
Is rejuvenation just around the corner for the Temptations? Cliff White asked the questions during their brief British visit. ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 19 September 2008
He co-wrote and produced some of Motown's greatest hits ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 18 July 2012
One of the last surviving members of the Funk Brothers, the backbone of Tamla Motown ...
The Temptations: The Band That Took Motown Higher
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 31 October 2008
FORTY YEARS ago this month, the Temptations released a single that would change the face of Motown. Martin Luther King Jr had been gunned down ...
Temptations Reunited and on the Road Again
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 1982
IN THE MINDS of many, the greatest soul record ever made was the Temptations' performance of Smokey Robinson's 'My Girl' on Motown's Gordy Records in ...
Hall & Oates: The Fall + Rise of Hohl + Oates
Interview by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, June 1985
How Daryl Hall (né Hohl) and John Oates became the most successful duo in recording history. New York interview by Graham K Smith ...
The Temptations, The Spinners: Apollo Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 14 April 1974
THE ATTRACTION at the Apollo Theater is actually a confrontation between two major soul singing groups, the Temptations, the headliners, and the Spinners. This is ...
Eddie Kendricks: The Son of Sagittarius
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
THE BRIGHTEST star on the horizon at the end of 1973 and beginning of 1974 was undoubtedly Eddie Kendricks, one-time lead vocalist with the world's ...
Temptations Special: Damon Harris and Richard Street
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, April 1972
Rappin' with Damon Harris... ...
Temptations Special: Dennis Edwards
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, April 1972
THE PAST year has seen some traumatic changes for the Temptations, changes that would certainly have wrecked any normal group's career to the point where ...
The Temptations Came, Saw And Almost Conquered
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 30 January 1970
AND SO, it's all over. The Temptations, first ambassadors of Soul and Motown have been and gone again. The question now is whether it was ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 October 1971
THE TEMPTATIONS without David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams! Strange, but true – that is the sad situation as of today. There was enough ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 13 January 1976
IF YOU check your American charts this week, you'll find that David Ruffin – after a break of some two years – is riding both ...
The Norman Whitfield interview
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1 February 1977
With three of his productions currently in the top four singles in this country, the timing could not have been better for this exclusive interview ...
Eddie Kendricks: A Temptation No More
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 16 April 1971
A MOTOWN News Release, dated March 19, 1971, confirmed something that we had been hearing about for several weeks – namely that Eddie Kendricks, lead ...
The Temptations: Still temptin'
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 28 October 1975
WHEN IT comes to successful vocal groups, the stalwart Temptations really have no peers. For over a decade now, they have reigned virtually uninterrupted over ...
The best Temptations of them all?
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 November 1971
MUCH HAS been written in B&S lately about the departure of Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams from the Temptations and, in all fairness, a lot ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 20 December 1977
Some felt that the Temps wouldn't survive outside of Motown but the guys are happy with their initial tracks for Atlantic and plan to fight ...
Temptations Thrive On Their New Found Freedom...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 16 January 1979
AFTER A rather disappointing first year with Atlantic Records, it looks as though 1979 will see the mighty Temptations searching in earnest to regain their ...
The Temptations: The Talk Of The Town, London
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 30 January 1970
ON ENTERING the exclusive surroundings of London's most popular dinner and entertainment club, my mind was engaged on the description that most journalists from the ...
On Disc: Singles Reviewed By John E. Abbey
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1970
RECORD OF THE FORTNIGHT ...
The Temptations: Moving With The Times
Interview by Kevin Allen, Record Mirror, 25 October 1975
IT'S SURE tough work being a Temptation. Before replacing Damon Harris in soul music's top fivesome, Glenn Leonard not only had to learn the group's ...
Britain's Lulu Looks at America and the Hemlines
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 August 1967
TO US LULU is the name of a comic strip character, but to the British Lulu is the name of an adorable 18-year-old pop singer. ...
Former Temptation David Ruffin Dies
Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 11 July 1991
DAVID RUFFIN, a former lead singer for the Temptations, died of a drug overdose in the early-morning hours of June 1st at the Hospital of ...
Berry Gordy: The Tracks of My Years
Interview by Michael Goldberg, New Musical Express, 18 August 1990
BERRY GORDY, the man who invented the "Sound of Young America", has seen the story of his monumentally influential Motown label told in a succession ...
The Supremes, the Righteous Brothers, the Beau Brummels et al: Cow Palace, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 27 February 1965
Righteous Sound Shakes 'Frisco ...
America Hits Back With Tamla Motown Attack
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 March 1965
IN RETALIATION to the British craze sweeping the States, America launches its biggest-ever campaign to bring back the Yanks into the British charts in the ...
The Temptations, Band of Gold: The Trip, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1966
Rock Group Packs 'Em In at Trip ...
Bettye Swann: The Soul View Now! (Capitol ST 190); The Temptations: Cloud Nine (Gordy GS 939)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1969
Bettye Swann's "Soul" ...
The Temptations: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 April 1967
THE TEMPTATIONS, who probably are the best rhythm 'n' blues performing act of the '60s, are pulling in crowds to the Whisky a Go Go ...
The Temptations — They're The Group With All Lead Singers!
Profile by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 July 1966
THE TEMPTATIONS, someone once said, look like football players (American style) but they neither sing nor dance like footballers. Instead, they have the coordinated grace ...
Hitler's part in the rise of the Temps
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 13 January 1973
IS IT really eight years The Temptations have been with us? It really only seems like yesterday that Motown's senior male group were making a ...
The Temptations: Mr. D's, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 November 1969
The Temptations Get a Soul Transplant ...
The Temptations, the Stylistics: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 16 June 1973
Night Was Right, Thrill Wasn't There ...
The Temptations, The Honey Cone: Circle Star, San Carlos CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 June 1972
Temptations Have Never Been Better ...
The Temptations: Psychedelic Shack (Tamla Motown)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 June 1970
SHAME, SHAME, shame... Motown's sold its soul for a spoonful of wah-wah guitar. Actually that's not quite true, because you can't totally obliterate the true ...
Making Hits Is As Easy As Pie says Temps Dennis
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 4 October 1969
"MAKING HIT records," claims Dennis Edwards, lusty lead singer of the Temptations, "is like making cakes. You just need the right basic ingredients and you're ...
Norman Whitfield: a gambler with some sure bets
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 1 January 1977
NORMAN WHITFIELD has always been a ghost-like character in terms of his presence to music. As a producer and writer he has always been a ...
The Temptations: The Tempts! On a nine-year winning streak
Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 17 February 1973
ROBIN KATZ talks to OTIS WILLIAMS ...
The Temptations, Carla Thomas: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 15 April 1972
IF ELVIS himself had stepped onstage at the Hammersmith Odeon on Friday he could hardly have created more excitement than the Temptations stirred up with ...
The Temptations: Behind The Slick Veneer
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 20 May 1972
TALKING TO the Temptations can at times smack of talking to a tape-recording. So many of the answers are stock phrases, learned in Tamla Motown's ...
Following Darling David, it's the Temptations Sensation
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
ROGER ST. PIERRE ON THE BIG SOUL TOUR ...
The Temptations: Hit Was Written in a Car
Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 6 March 1964
IT TOOK the help of a "miracle" for the Temptations to come up with their first big hit, 'The Way You Do the Things You ...
The Temptations: Masterpiece (Tamla-Motown).
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 23 June 1973
AND SO it came to pass, dat one day de Nazz summoned Norman Whitfield — de man dat dotted de most funkiest of crotchets — ...
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 24 January 1970
...talking to Royston Eldridge ...
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 15 May 1976
Temptations: Wings of LoveMarvin Gaye: I Want YouLee Garrett: Heat For The Feets EVEN SOUL musicians grow old and, though black music has never ...
The Temptations: The Trip, Los Angeles, CA
Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 19 August 1966
Temptations go well at Los Angeles' Trip club ...
Albums from the Supremes and Marvin Gaye
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 11 January 1969
THOSE TAMLA GOODIES ...
Temptations' Paul Williams Dead at 34: Suicide
Report by uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973
DETROIT — Paul Williams, 34, one of the original Temptations, was buried here August 24th. He died anonymously, barely two blocks from the Motown offices ...
The Temptations: An Investment That Paid Off
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader Yearbook, Winter 1967
ONE REASON the Beatles "retired" was that they were getting tired of touring. Everywhere they went, they were prisoners in their hotel and they hardly ...
Albums from The Temptations, Butterfield Blues Band, Marvin Gaye and Sammy Davis Jr.
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 October 1966
Temptations have got a big seller ...
The Temptations Tattle On Each Other
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, January 1967
MEL FRANKLIN:The four other members of the group are just fantastic performers — I can't think of any four other guys I would rather perform ...
The Temptations: Psychedelic Shack (Gordy 947 U.S.) — (Tamla Motown 11147 U.K.)
Review by uncredited writer, Blues & Soul, 8 May 1970
EXCLUSIVE! THE NEW TEMPTATIONS ALBUM IN DEPTH ...
The Temptations: Uris Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Vicki Wickham, Melody Maker, 7 December 1974
NEW YORK: The Temptations at The Uris on Broadway should have been an event — but instead it was a backwards step, just like going ...
The Temptations: Wings Of Love (Tamla Motown)****
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 15 May 1976
VERY NEAT structure to the new Temps release. Side one has all the funk, all the dancers, and Side two has what you could call ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1973
It is 1978, and for the first time in half a decade, three consecutive Alice Cooper singles fail to reach the top fifty. Burbank has ...
see also Dennis Edwards
see also Eddie Kendricks
see also David Ruffin
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