Levi Stubbs the soulful lead to the Four Tops passed away today at age 72. For those of you who didn’t get the Rick Astley/Bond gag I posted earlier you sure as hell won’t get this.
This legendary soul artist put his bandmates first and never broke them up. He was offered a solo career more than once and wouldn’t take it.
Levi Stubbs, whose distinctive, rough-hewn voice and pleading vocal style elevated the Four Tops’ soul classics to masterpieces, died today at his Detroit home. He was 72.
The Michigan native had been in ill health since being diagnosed with cancer in 1995. A stroke and other health problems led him to stop touring in 2000.
Stubbs did venture into acting and commercial work. In addition to TV commercials and voice work, he provided the voice of the carnivorous plant Audrey II in the 1986 movie version of Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.
Heaven is a far prettier sounding place now.
I present to you AudreyII from Little Shop of Horrors in tribute.
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Going on vacation for a few days, so i’ll be back
Ditto
‘distinctive, rough-hewn voice and pleading vocal style elevated the Four Tops’ soul classics to masterpieces’
So, So true
DAMN 2008!
I missed you too but I’ll be there tonight (cause i’m doing my show two hours before it).
Hi Phil! I miss you on the live show!
I still watch it all the time; my favourite musical
Thank you for posting about this one Rodney. I found out a little earlier and it’s damn sad. Sounds like he had a good innings though.
That is one of my mom’s fav movies and I loved watching it with her when I was little. Sad news.