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Temptations' Paul Williams Dead at 34: Suicide

uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973

DETROIT — Paul Williams, 34, one of the original Temptations, was buried here August 24th. He died anonymously, barely two blocks from the Motown offices where he and the other Temptations cut their first record ten years ago.

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