Al Green – 10 of the best

From a chequered career, the tussle between the religious and the secular is audible on all of Green’s best songs – even the ones he hatesHe didn’t think much of it at the time and quickly came to loathe having to perform it, but Al Green’s first hit was arguably the most important record he ever made. Greene – who dropped the e after he released his debut album – grew up dirt poor, one of 10 children born to a sharecropper family in Arkansas. One night, after being paid $800 for an ...

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