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Edwin Starr
Living in Cleveland, Ohio, Edwin Starr began his career at the age of 15,
forming a doo-wop group The Future Tones with his cousins Roger and Willie
Hatcher. When Starr later moved to Detroit, he released his first single Agent
Double O Soul in 1965, going on to have a succession of soul hits as his label
Ric-Tic was absorbed by Motown. The record for which he will forever be
remembered, however, is War, a Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong song originally
intended for the Temptations, which Starr ferociously performed as an angry
diatribe against the Vietnam War. A major hit in 197...
