Old music: The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow

In 1961, a 14-year-old boy didn't realise what the Shirelles' greatest song was aboutWill You Love Me Tomorrow by the Shirelles was released in 1960 and went to the top of the US charts (No 4 in the UK) early in 1961. It was the first girl group No 1, and one of the first hits by black artists to sell in millions to white kids. And it was almost the perfect pop song. I was 14 when it came out, and Shirley Owens's voice, so powerful yet fragile, so full of yearning, perfectly matched my adolescen...

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