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Smokey Robinson: Quiet Stormbringer

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975

LOS ANGELES — During the three years since Smokey Robinson retired from the Miracles and the road, he's released three solo albums — Smokey, Pure Smokey and now A Quiet Storm — without a hit single. Perhaps it's just coincidence, but he's resumed performing at the precise moment he's enjoying his first successful single and album as a solo performer: 'Baby That's Backatcha' from A Quiet Storm.

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