Saturday, October 18, 2008
SEVEN ROOMS OF GLOOM
RIP, the phenomenal Levi Stubbs. The Four Tops are probably the least fashionable or acclaimed of the '60's Motown acts, but they're the ones I love the most.
Apologies for the not particularly good YouTube clip. It's difficult to find early Four Tops footage on YouTube, even though I seem to remember them being on TV all the time when I was a little kid.
I would've loved to put the peerless Bernadette on here instead, as it's probably among my favourite ten singles of all time, if I could be bothered to compile such a list. Oh! The melodrama, the disembodied, ghostly backing vocals and ... just ... Levi Stubbs really.
Respect.
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