From the 1970 War & Peace album released on January 1st 1970, War was released as a single in June 1970 and was No. 1 for 3 weeks on August 29th/ September 5th and September 12th of that year. Originally intended for The Temptations, Starrs explosive version was much more powerful than the Temptations version and […]
Edwin Starr’s hard energetic and passionate soul album War & Peace was released on January 1st 1970 as anti-war protesters were gaining ground in the US and the disaster of Vietnam was on everybody’s lips. The Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong song, War became an an enormous hit, but not till later that year. Originally the song […]