Link to news article about Edwin Starr from today's BBC website about how he came to live in Nottingham, etc
Remember a mate of mine seeing him regularly in Long Eaton Asda doing his Saturday shop - funny old world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-23944922
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But the Nashville-born singer spent the final years of his life thousands of miles from the Motown heartland of Detroit.
He died in Chilwell - on the outskirts of Nottingham - in 2003.
A decade later, Starr's younger brother Angelo Starr and manager Lilian Kyle look back on his life and chart his unusual journey to the English suburbs.
The 4 min slideshow being the main focus of this article
Slideshow production by Caroline Lowbridge. Publication date 24 October 2013.
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