Friday, October 17, 2008

Now it's the same old song, but with a different meaning since you been gone...

Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs dead at 72 by Mike Householder (AP)

The Four Tops (including Levi Stubbs, seated left) pictured in the mid-60s
telegraph.co.uk story

DETROIT – Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose dynamic and emotive voice drove such Motown classics as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" and "Baby I Need Your Loving," died Friday at 72. He had been ill recently and died in his sleep at the Detroit house he shared with his wife, said Dana Meah, the wife of a grandson. The Wayne County medical examiner's office also confirmed the death. With Stubbs in the lead, the Four Tops sold millions of records and performed for more than four decades without a change in personnel. - complete story

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