[Music] Barrett Strong - RIP

[Is it PotG?]

True music legend, some great tunes.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

100% this. He and Norman Whitfield responsible for many Motown classics. This is just one - RIP Barrett

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Help if I actually posted the vid

 

[TugWilson]

Great music . R.I.P.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

My favourite Barrett Strong song, being my first favourite Beatles song, from my favourite Beatles album. RIP.

 

[half time scores]

This is one of his

 

[Comrade Sam]

A true legend, the writer of so many Temptations greats. I had the joy of using this masterpiece as one of the sources for my students studying the Vietnam War as part of their GCSE.

 

[Comrade Sam]

As Billy Bragg said " Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong are here to make right everything that's wrong!"

 

[Stato]

My favourite Barrett Strong song, being my first favourite Beatles song, from my favourite Beatles album. RIP.

Barrett's own version, one of the first singles released on Motown was the model for the Beatles' cover:



Decent singer as well as fabulous songwriter.