O'Jays, The The O'Jays formed fresh from high school in 1959 and named themselves after Eddie O'Jay, a disc-jockey on Radio WABQ in….Kiki Dee Kiki Dee had been making records since the Sixties, but her career didn't really get going until Elton John signed….He was buried in Wilford Hill Cemetery in West Bridgford, Nottingham. Starr remained a hero on England’s Northern Soul circuit and continued living in England until, on 2 April 2003, he suffered a heart attack and died while taking a bath at his home in Bramcote near Nottingham. The resulting single, Whatever Makes Our Love Grow, did well in several European countries. The charity project led to a recording contract with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, the English production team. In 1987, Starr took part in the high-profile Ferry Aid project, recording a version of The Beatles‘ Let It Be with such British superstars as Boy George, Mark Knopfler and Kim Wilde to raise funds for victims of the March 1987 ferry disaster off the coast of Belgium. When Starr’s mother died in late 1983, he saw no reason to remain in the USA. In addition, Starr and his longtime manager, Lilian Kyle, found Motown less than forthcoming when it came to royalties. In 19, Starr was riding high on the charts with his biggest hits, Twenty-five Miles and War. The latter, a thinly-veiled indictment of America’s involvement in the Vietnam war, spent three weeks at #1 and earned the singer a Grammy Award.īy 1983, Starr – a forgotten man in his homeland – had pulled up stakes and set sail for London.Īlthough he had ridden the disco wave with records like H.A.P.P.Y Radio and Contact, by 1982 he was without a label and was finding it increasingly hard to eke out a living. The song which launched his career was Agent Double-O-Soul (1965), a reference to the James Bond films popular at the time.įirst released in 1966 when it reached #39, then at the end of 1968, Motown decided to try again with Headline News as part of a double A-side with Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S). The plan worked and the record climbed to #11. In 1957, he formed a doo-wop group called The Future Tones and began his singing career as Edwin Starr.īased in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s, he recorded at first for the small Ric-Tic label, part of the Golden World recording company, and later for Motown Records (under the Gordy Records imprint), after the latter absorbed Ric-Tic in 1968.
He and his cousins, soul singers Roger and Willie Hatcher, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they were raised. Charles Edwin Hatcher was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1942.
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