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Lenny Williams: a Tower of Vocal Power

Tony Cummings, Black Music, November 1974

"YEAH, IT was that same old gospel thing. Fact is I sang in the same church as Sly Stone and Edwin Hawkins. I was really into gospel music 'til I was nineteen. It happens over and over again. Guys get into religion, get into music and eventually get into rock and roll."

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