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The Sixties R&B act the Temptations began their career as Detroit street-corner singers, later becoming one of the Tamla Motown label's biggest success stories. They gained their first hit singles with the talented artist and producer Smokey Robinson, but it wasn't until they teamed with the producer Norman Whitfield, who helmed hits like "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and the innovative, socially conscious "Ball of Confusion," that they really hit their stride. Here, Otis Williams, the only surviving member of the original group, recounts the illuminating and occasionally controversial story of one of soul music's most sophisticated and influential outfits. He recalls their early-'60s rise to fame, as Tamla Motown positioned itself as "the sound of young America," and the band's later rocky career in the 1970s and '80s after its label moved to Los Angeles, producer Whitfield split with his main lyricist, Barrett Strong, and singers like Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams quit. Incredibly, however, despite many lineup changes, the band's fortunes revived in the 1990s--as Williams proudly relates, it ultimately became one of the longest surviving acts in soul music.
| Size | | Length: | 268 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
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