From The Beginning
Smokey is leaving the Miracles. This may mean more to those of us in Detroit, who’ve watched the Miracles almost, but never quite, make the break into the Top Forty success that they always deserved, over the last fourteen years, than it does to anyone else but it is a significant event.
From The Beginning
Dave Marsh
Smokey is leaving the Miracles. This may mean more to those of us in Detroit, who’ve watched the Miracles almost, but never quite, make the break into the Top Forty success that they always deserved, over the last fourteen years, than it does to anyone else but it is a significant event.
“Smokey” Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, and Pete Moore are all 31 years old; they’ve been together, in a group called the Miracles, for seventeen of those years, half of them with the addition^ of Smokey’s wife, Claudette. There are almost no other groups who have been together that long, intact, in either white rock and roll or black music: the Four Tops, the Isley Brothers, and the mind searches from there.