Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – ‘The Tracks of my Tears’“I don’t see how pop music could get any better than this.
Beautifully sung, beautifully played, beautifully produced. It’s perfection. It’s simple too, like all the great pop songs are.
If you went to your grave having written a song like ‘The Tracks of my Tears’ I think that would be a massive achievement.”Traffic – ‘Hole in my Shoe’“It was this, and a song called ‘Kites’ by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.
It was in 1967 and I would have been nine. I didn’t know who they were by or what they were, but I remember the talking bits on those records and the slightly strange sound.
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