If you want my opinion about this, I agree with the lot of you, this is an effed-up thing for Smoke to do but then again, I always thought he was suspect [[don't ask me why, I just do). As for the person who saw his concert, Smokey was never a captivating performer. People say all they want about MG not being a great dancer but the one thing Marvin did was captivate an audience with his voice and his moves. People responded to him almost like they would've responded to Diana because Diana had the same effect on people. Smokey was probably his best as a performer with the Miracles in the very early to mid 1960s but after that he was stiff. So performing wise, he never impressed me. His songs and his stance as a songwriter is what made him who he was. It definitely wasn't as a performer. He was the Motown act who, to me, had the two left feet. Because even Marvin attempted to dance and looked fly doing it [[that's probably the biased fan in me but tell me do you see Smokey doing some dance number and coming out to the Soul Train audience dancing with them? No lol). But I think he should cut Claudette some slack. They built history together. It wasn't like Claudette was some chick on the fly that he married after he got famous. She was with him from the time she was 15 and he 19 and they went through hell and back and he does some punk ish on her and now this? Smoke's just greedy.
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