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The strange thing about the Righteous Brothers is that they're white...

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 January 1965

THE RIGHTEOUS Brothers are not brothers at all; nor indeed are they more than ordinarily righteous. Their names are Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, and it's just possible we might never have seen them at all had not Miss Cilla Black decided to do a cover version of their huge American hit, with all the apostrophes, 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin''.

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