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William Bell: Do Right Man (Charly)

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984

‘YOU DON'T Miss Your Water’ was only the fifth single on Stax. That was 1961, and pipe-smoking William Bell was there not only to see Otis Redding cut the song five years later but to see the whole Stax operation crash into bankruptcy in 1975.

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