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Mr. Gordy has a formula for success — 'It is Love'

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 October 1964

THE BEATLES have done terrible things to the American record industry. Nobody knows what to record any longer. Should they try to reproduce what is quaintly called the English Sound? Should they find a sound of their own? Should they resurrect Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra for the teenagers?

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