Edwin Starr
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Edwin Starr: A Record Is Made — with Sweat and Soul
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 1966
EMOTION FILLED the control room at Golden World Records out on West Davison. Driving, big beat sounds were coming through the four speakers hanging on ...
New singles from the Beatles, Small Faces, Percy Sledge et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 August 1966
THIS IS THE BEST BEATLE SONG EVER! ...
Profile by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Edwin Starr was born Charles Hatcher in the country-music capital of Nashville, Tennessee, on 21st January 1942. Neither his mother, Amanda, nor his father, William, ...
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
HAVE PITY on the unfortunate rhythm and blues enthusiast for whom the West End of London is the most convenient place to get to; inevitably ...
Cream, Edwin Starr: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 February 1967
AFTER LAST week's unfortunate non-happening at the Saville, almost everything that happened this Sunday seemed to be in contrast. ...
Cream, Edwin Starr: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 February 1967
GINGER BAKER played one of the finest solos in his career at London's Saville Theatre on Sunday night. ...
Duane Eddy, Edwin Starr, The Senate, Lomax Alliance: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 March 1967
ANY DR. ZHIVAGO "gear" seen in the Savllle last Sunday was not due to a 'fab fad' but to the nippy draughts which whistled through ...
Singles from the Beach Boys, the Parliaments, Wilson Pickett et al
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 November 1967
AMERICA AWAKES, INCORPORATING 'ROCK-SOUL-BLUES REVIEWS' BY NORMAN JOPLING ...
Edwin Starr and Brenton Wood in Britain
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 10 February 1968
"AND NOW, ladies and gentlemen, back in Britain for the eighth time... Edwin Starr." ...
U.S. News: Edwin Starr, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Sherman, Led Zeppelin
Report by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
EDWIN STARR was back in New York after his 16th trip to England and with the news that 'War', a Motown mover by the Norman ...
The Week's Singles: Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, The Band et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970
Magnificent, dynamic Nyro ...
Edwin Starr: Stop the war, Edwin wants to get off
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 20 February 1971
"PERSONALLY I think 'Stop The War — Now' is fantastic. The producer and writers did a fantastic job. What bothers me is people have the ...
Edwin Starr: Involved (Tamla Motown)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
THIS ALBUM'S title is Edwin Starr — Involved, but somehow it comes across as being a token gesture. Black white soul at its most blatant ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
The thrill is gone ...
Edwin Starr: The Thespian Anglophile And The Motown Machine
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
EDWIN STARR has a rather special place in the British soul scene, since none of America's top soul acts can match his record of some ...
Edwin Starr: Starr in ascendency!
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 May 1976
YESSIREEBOB, VENUS and Mars are alright tonight! The past year has been relatively quiet for Edwin Starr but he seems happier than at any time ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1977
Edwin Starr consistently makes the charts, yet he's still somewhat underrated. He talks to B&S about his new album recorded at Chipping Norton and how ...
Isaac Hayes And Edwin Starr: Live In Manchester
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
Two men with but one single thought: Which way is up? ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 10 April 1979
After a lengthy absence from the charts, Edwin's back with a vengeance. And he's well tuned in to disco as some folks acclaim 'Twenty Five ...
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
SOUL SINGER Edwin Starr (61) died of a heart attack at his home in central England on April 2. Edwin Starr was one of Soul ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 4 April 2003
AMONG THE CHANTS and songs accompanying this year's anti-war marches a reprised relic first sung by African American soul musician Edwin Starr, who has died, ...
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Obituary by Mike Atherton, Record Collector, June 2003
FEW SOUL FANS would expect one of their heroes to adopt the UK as his spiritual and literal home. Even fewer would expect such a ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 19 September 2008
He co-wrote and produced some of Motown's greatest hits ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 18 July 2012
One of the last surviving members of the Funk Brothers, the backbone of Tamla Motown ...
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