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Four Tops (Musical group)

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Corporate name headingFour Tops (Musical group)
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Variant(s)4 Tops (Musical group)
See alsoMember: Fakir, Abdul, 1935-
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Member: McNeir, Ronnie
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Member: Payton, Lawrence
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Member: Stubbs, Levi, 1936-2008
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Beginning date1954
Found inAll star soul [SR] 196-?: label (The Four Tops)
Stambler, I. Encyc. of pop, rock & soul, rev. ed. (Four Tops, The; vocal and dance group)
New York times, July 2, 2005 (Obie Benson, 69, original bass voice of the Four Tops; d. July 1, 2005, Detroit; b. 1936, Detroit; real first name was Renaldo; formed the group that became the Four Tops with three fellow high school students: Levi Stubbs, Abdul (Duke) Fakir, and Lawrence Payton in 1954; the quartet stayed together 43 years until Payton's death in 1997; Stubbs left the group in 2000)
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