Edwin Starr

(incomplete). Leigh Marklew - Bass. Starr died of a heart attack at the age of 61 in his home near Nottingham. Mark Yates - Guitars. Starr resurfaced briefly in 2002 to record a song with the British musician Jools Holland, singing "Snowflake Boogie" on Holland's compact disc More Friends. Shutty - Drums. In 1979 Starr reappeared on the charts with a pair of disco hits, titled "(Eye-To-Eye) Contact" and "Happy Radio". Tony Wright - Vocals.

Starr continued to record music into the 1970s, most notably recording the song "Hell Up In Harlem" for the 1974 movie, Hell Up In Harlem, which was the sequel to Black Caesar, a earlier hit with a soundtrack by James Brown. Since splitting up singer Tony Wright has gone on to form Laika Dog, whilst Leigh Marklew has gone on to form Malibu Stacey. He moved to England in 1973. They put out a further studio album on their own independent label, and then after a greatest hits album decided to call it a day, after a farewell tour. (Incidentally, that album - War and Peace - featured another song of very similar construction titled "Stop the War Now", which was a minor hit in its own right.). Despite having their greatest ever hit in 1999 with the Mint Royale remix of Tequila, they were dropped by their record label, EMI. The #1 hit became an anthem for the antiwar movement, and is now commonly found in such diverse places as movie soundtracks and samples in hip hop music. They were formed in 1987 (as Spoilt bratz) in Bradford, and broke up in 2001.

The biggest hit of his career, and the one which cemented his reputation as one of the great soul artists, was the anti-Vietnam War protest song "War (What Is It Good For)" (1970). Terrorvision were a British rock band. He recorded more soul music for the next three years before having an international chart-topper in "25 Miles" (1968), one of only two of his songs still heard today on oldies radio. Thrive EP (1992). The song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a take-off on the James Bond films which were popular at the time. The First and The Last (2001). He lived in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s and recorded at first for the small label Ric-Tic, and later for the famed Motown after it absorbed Ric-Tic. Whales and Dolphins (2001) (Greatest hits compilation).

In 1957 he formed the group The Future Tones. Good to Go (2001). He was born with the name Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee. Shaving Peaches (1998). Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 - April 2, 2003) was a soul music singer. Regular Urban Survivors (1996). "Snowflake Boogie" (w/Jules Holland) (2002). How To Make Friends And Influence People (1994).

"Get Up" (1980). Formaldehyde (1992). "Happy Radio" (1979). "Contact" (1979). "Hell Up In Harlem" (1974).

"Easin' In (American Pimp Soundtrack) (1974). "Big Papa" (1974). "There You Go" (1973). "My Sweet Lord" (1971).

"Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" (1971). "War" (1970). "Time" (1970). "Stop the War Now" (1970).

"I Just Wanna Do My Thing" (1970). "I'm Still a Struggling Man" (1969). "25 Miles" (1968). "Grits Ain't Grocery" (1968).

"I Want My Baby Back" (1967). "Oh How Happy" (1966). "Headline News" (1966). "Back Street" (1966).

"Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965).