"I even introduced America to the roundabout" is the sort of bold claim you might expect would secure someone a guest appearance on Alan Partridge's radio show. Fair play to Martha Reeves for including that among her many more celebrated achievements.
Reeves, answering a host of readers' questions for the Guardian, also revealed that her friendship with Dusty Springfield began when they smashed crockery together in the dressing room of New York's Apollo Theatre. The Brit apparently convinced her that this is what we normally do to relieve "anxiety and anger". Well played, Dusty, well played.
Elsewhere, Reeves confessed that her key takeaway from touring the Jim Crow south in 1962 was "learn[ing] how to pee-pee without getting it on our shoes because there were signs saying 'white only' or 'no blacks allowed' or whatever". Talk about triumph in adversity.
And if we're going to allow anyone to get away with having such a gargantuan ego that they're only interested in listening to their own music, then the person who sang 'Heatwave' and 'Dancing In The Streets' has a fair claim.
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