DeBarge

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Debarge: The New First Family Of Motown
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 May 1983
IT SEEMS that Motown have finally found the successor to the Jacksons! After the ineffectiveness of the first album by the Debarge family, their second ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 30 July 1983
25 years on the dancefloor, Tamla Motown is still the black music label. In the '60s, their motto was 'The Sound Of Young America' — then hard ...
DeBarge: In A Special Way (Gordy ZL 72004)
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 7 April 1984
LORDY, MISTER Gordy, your funk family DeBarge sure need a big British boost. So far the impression is that if I stood outside RM Mansions ...
DeBarge's Family Affair: Motown Spawns Another Jackson 5
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1984
AT MOTOWN Records these days, they're talking about the "new Jacksons." That's the word on DeBarge, a group of siblings whose latest LP, In a ...
DeBarge: Rhythm Of The Night (Gordy ZL72340)
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 27 April 1985
THEY HAD to plagiarise Lionel Richie to do it, but at least the streetparty sound of 'Rhythm Of The Night' has finally brought the DeBarge ...
Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 11 May 1985
Could DeBarge be subtitled 'The Richie Family'? Is there any fraternal rivalry? Surely not, says Paul Sexton ...
Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 6 July 1985
Hmm... it's not exactly kissy kissy time in the DeBarge family camp these days. Paul Sexton sniffs inter-sibling rivalry beneath the ultrawhite smiles ...
Report by Lloyd Bradley, The Independent, 9 May 1991
Lloyd Bradley on the changing fortunes of the Motown label ...
The Rise and Fall of The DeBarge Family
Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, October 2007
The DeBarge family – El, Marty, Randy, Bunny and James, not to mention Thomas, Bobby, and baby brother Chico – were supposed to be Motown's ...
see also El DeBarge
see also Switch
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