[1] "War" appeared on both of Starr's War & Peace album and its follow-up, Involved, produced by Norman Whitfield. Soul singer Edwin Starr died of an apparent heart attack yesterday (April 2) at his home near Nottingham, England, his manager, Lilian Kyle, confirmed. In 1985, Starr released "It Ain't Fair". Edwin Starr was a Aquarius and was born in the Silent Generation. In England, Starr participated in an award-winning BBC radio series on the U.S. civil rights movement. The greatest overall compatibility with Aquarius is Leo and Sagittarius. In the 1970s Starr's base shifted to the United Kingdom, where he continued to produce music, and resided until his death. In late 2002, Edwin Starr appeared with many R&B stars on the "Rhythm, Love, and Soul" edition of the PBS series American Soundtrack. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. His Starr café empire still enjoys success in and around Essex. "His death has come as a total shock," said Paul Carvell, a friend. "Contact" was the more successful of the two, peaking at #65 on the US pop charts, #13 on the R&B chart, #1 on the dance chart, and #6 on the UK Singles Chart. © 2019 Billboard. The song that launched his career was "Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965), a reference to the James Bond films popular at the time. Born Charles Hatcher in Nashville, Starr formed his first group, the Future Tones, in 1957, recording one single before his three-year army service. In 1989, a number 17 UK hit by the Cookie Crew called "Got to Keep On" sampled a portion of "25 Miles". "Copyright 2003 Associated Press. Once more details are available, we will update this section. He played to 16,000 people over the two nights and he put on a great show. Moving to England in 1973, Starr continued to record, most notably the song "Hell Up in Harlem" for the 1974 film Hell Up in Harlem, which was the sequel to Black Caesar, an earlier hit with a soundtrack by James Brown. Edwin Starr (born Charles Edwin Hatcher; January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003) was an American singer and songwriter.Starr was famous for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number-one hit "War".. Starr was born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio, and later lived in Detroit while singing for Ric-Tic and Motown Records. His nickname was suggested by the managers of one of his groups, reportedly after hearing him sing and the manager telling him he would be a star one day. Edwin Starr was born on the 21st of January, 1942. Billboard is a subsidiary of Valence Media, LLC. He appeared again in 2002 to record a song with the British musician Jools Holland, singing "Snowflake Boogie" on Holland's compact disc More Friends; and to record another track with Utah Saints, a so-far-unreleased version of his number one hit "War"—his last-ever recording. To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. It was when Motown's Berry Gordy became frustrated with smaller labels like Ric-Tic stealing some of the success of his company that he bought out the label. In 1989, Starr also joined Ian Levine's Motorcity Records, releasing six singles and the album Where Is the Sound, as well as co-writing several songs for other artists on the label.
While at Ric-Tic, he wrote the song, "Oh, How Happy", a #12 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1966 for The Shades of Blue (he would go on to release a version of the song with Blinky in 1969) and sang lead for the Holidays on their #12 R&B hit, "I'll Love You Forever".
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