Why is this book the story of UK singles ? And he will footnote that it escaped and tell you when and where it was recaptured. There is gaucherie by the bucketful, Terry Wilson hacks, sweats and plunges through his pages, he does not glideth as the swan upon the lake, no natural stylist is he, no, he worries and stops and starts and backtracks and ponders rethinks and he has this mission to let no fact about a Motown single released in the UK escape and if one does he will be like Robert de Niro in Midnight Run, he will track that fact down and handcuff himself to it and drag it bodily and cram it into the boot of his car and drive back to the paragraph it escaped from and shove it back in. This book is where love, technical musical analysis and pop sociology is fused in the white heat of unfettered OCD fan obsession into sheer beautiful poetry. I know you can't compare oranges and aardvarks but the run of singles from Where Did Our Love Go up to I'm Livin' in Shame (1964-69, 20 singles) is a contender for the best sequence ever and Mary Wilson was on every one. Includes a streak of five consecutive number ones, including four in one year Sixth act in the list of most number one hits in USA This was the first female group to get a No 1 album in America
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