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3.4.03

Of all the tragic ironies....


At a time when THAT song of his has regained its currency once again, Edwin Starr has died. A great shame. His three top ten hits made #3, #6 and #9; a pattern which makes it easy to remember, if nothing else, but he never did have a UK number one, as such. And yet, in a way, he did, twice. That's because although Edwin himself remains the only person to have had a hit with War (quite surprising, for such a well-known song), it was on the back of two #1s within two years; The Jam's Beat Surrender (in a double pack) in 1982 and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes in 1984 (and also on Frankie's #1 album).

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