Smokey Robinson was on the brink. After 15 years fronting the Miracles, one of the first and most formidable acts signed to Motown Records, he was poised to leave the group. But those plans abruptly changed with the fluke success of 1970's "The Tears of a Clown," the Miracles' first-ever number one pop single - a song rescued from obscurity by the head of the British division of the Motown Fan Club.
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