There's no doubt Smokey Robinson has lived an extraordinary life.
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"I might as well be candid. I don't want to sugarcoat it... There's going to be my ups and my downs, and my positives and my negatives, and all that has to be included, if it's going to be real," he said."I want it to be real, so people can get a good feeling of what my life has been and what it's like."
"It was unique. The studio was going 24/7, man... We have so many artists and so many producers and writers and people like that. It was just energy. I describe it as being energy," he continued."It was just energetic, where everybody at all times... believes the legacy of Hitsville is a once-in-a-lifetime musical event. Nothing like that had happened before then, and I doubt seriously if it will ever happen again.
"Stevie's on the front porch, and then we take him down into the studio. He played everything down there. He played around, played the drums. He played a piano, he played the organ, he played everything down there. He was about 11 years old. He was fascinating, man," Robinson recalled."... I tell people all the time, Stevie is blind, but he's never been handicapped."
"One of our teachers at elementary school told us the story of Pagliacci... the clown that everybody who came to the circus came to see... and they cheered him and they loved him," Robinson said.".... He would go back to his dressing room and he would cry, because he didn't have that kind of admiration from a woman... So I said, 'Look, I'm gonna write about Pagliacci, but I'm just gonna make it personal.' That's where the idea for the song came from.
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