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Eddie Holland Is 300% Happier Now

Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 2 April 1970

DETROIT — Edward Holland learned a lot at Motown besides how to make hit records. Edward Holland learned the art of the controlled interview, an art perfected at the old Motown headquarters on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit. Reporters often thought that they were talking to cleverly constructed puppets with strings pulled by public relations specialists.

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