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The Jackson 5: Papa Joe's Family Music Plan...

Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 2 June 1973

HOW MUCH does your father influence you? How would you feel if he insisted that you spend at least four hours everyday after school learning to master a musical instrument. Would you whine if you had to regularly do a set of household chores, mind your younger brothers and sisters, and be in every night before it gets dark? If your dad didn't let you go for fun rides in friends' cars, and had you to spend every single one of your school holidays travelling in a crowded car going from strange city to strange city, would you get angry?

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