Starr's intense vocals transformed a Temptations album track into a #1 chart success, which spent three weeks in that top position on the US Billboard charts, an anthem for the antiwar movement and a cultural milestone that continues to resound a generation later in movie soundtracks and hip hop music samples. In explanation, Starr remained characteristically modest, explaining that he'd been allocated little studio time, so had to give each song his best shot. A rousing tour-de-force, the vocals to "War" were - according to Starr - recorded in one take: an accomplishment which might make modern artists quail with apprehension. The biggest hit of his career, which cemented his reputation as a great soul artist, was the anti-Vietnam War protest song "War" (1970). As of 2005 it is one of only two Starr songs on oldies radio. He recorded more soul music for the next three years before having an international chart-topper in "25 Miles" (1968). The song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a take-off on the James Bond films which were popular at the time. Starr lived in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s and recorded at first for the small record label Ric-Tic, and later for the famed Motown after it absorbed Ric-Tic in 1968. In 1957 Starr formed a doo-wop group The Future Tones and began his singing career. He and his cousins (soul singers Roger and Willie Hatcher) moved to Cleveland, Ohio where they were raised. Edwin Starr was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1942. Born Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee, Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit War. Edwin Starr (Janu– April 2, 2003) was an American soul music singer.
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