Temptations

The Temptations Richard Street has died aged 70. Street, who was a member of the Motown group for 25 years after joining the band in the early 1970's as Paul Williams' replacement, passed away early yesterday morning (February 27) in Las Vegas of a pulmonary embolism.

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