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The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced

The White Stripes, Soundgarden, Bad Company and more will be inducted during the ceremony in Los Angeles in November

Louder

‘James Brown kept cutting our stage time’ – how the Stylistics made You Make Me Feel Brand New

‘The first time we opened for James Brown, we got 20 minutes on stage. Then when he heard the crowd response, he cut it to 15. By the end of the tour, he’d cut us back to five’

The Guardian - UK

Maze’s Frankie Beverly united Black America with his everyman brilliance

The funk and soul singer, who has died aged 77, was part of Black family life in the US while being a cult sensation in the UK – and his smooth but never slick music rightly endures

The Guardian - UK

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Henry Fambrough obituary

Vocalist and last surviving founder member of the American soul and disco group the Spinners

The Guardian - UK

Thom Bell, 1970s ‘Sound of Philadelphia’ producer, dies at 79

Bell, often collaborating with lyricist Linda Creed, worked on more than 30 gold records from 1968-78 as Philadelphia became as much a center of soul music as Detroit and Motown Records were in the 1960s.

Chicago Sun-Times

Thom Bell, an architect of 1970s Philadelphia soul, dies

One of the architects of the 1970s “Sound of Philadelphia” has died

The Independent UK

Delfonics lead singer William 'Poogie' Hart dead at 77

William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such classic “Sound of Philadelphia” ballads as “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” has died at age 77

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William Hart, Delfonics lead singer and songwriter, dies aged 77

Hart was the primary songwriter for the Philadelphia sweet-soul group, who recorded with Thom Bell and were covered by Prince and Aretha Franklin

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