The biggest-selling American recording artist of the culturally-conflicted 1960s wasn’t a long-haired rock ‘n’ roller from Laurel Canyon or San Francisco, nor was he part of Detroit’s groundbreaking Motown scene.
He wasn’t even a singer, even though he managed to score a No. 1 hit with the first song he ever laid a vocal on (“This Guy’s in Love With You,” 1968).
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