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    Nov 11, 2021 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW: GAVIN MARTIN
    “I’m intense, but I’m fairly humble; I’m egotistical, but I need it to be what I am”

    NME : It must have been a tremendous pressure having to churn out hit after hit after hit in the ’60s, when you were part of the Motown machine.

    It was a tremendous pressure because the business is tremendously competitive – especially on the Chitlin circuit, which is what we’re now talking about, if you don’t mind me saying so, because blacks were not permitted to evolve to popdom. So as a chitlin circuit artist it’s most

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