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Bohannon: "The Band Doesn't Get the Proper Respect"

Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 January 1970

MOST MOTOWN groups don't perform on stage while playing their own instruments. It would be rather difficult for The Temptations to go through their dance routines with guitars wrapped around their necks and long electrical cords winding their way to the back of the room. And picture Smokey Robinson on drums.

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