Want a sense of just how ugly and predatory the record industry could be in the 1960s, especially on the smaller labels? Dig how Jackie Wilson went from being one of the biggest-selling and highly influential soul artists of his generation to incapacitated and penniless in the 1970s. Here's an ABC 20/20 segment on Wilson from the 1990s...
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