It was January, 1970, snowy and blowy in New York, and “I Want You Back” was on the jukebox at Max’s. It sounded like a Supremes’ song at first, but not quite, the lead voice being too high and thin. I went and checked the juke-box, G-9 or whatever, read JACKSON FIVE — MOTOWN, and said, ‘Wow Diana Ross has found a sound-alike group from Jackson, Miss. and put them through the Motown wringer. Come to think of it, that screws up my whole musical categorization system inside my head, because suddenly there is another group in the Supremes’ pigeonhole that isn’t the Supremes at all, which means the Supremes’ sound isn’t unique, in fact most likely it is endlessly duplicatable, Berry Gordy probably has ten, fifteen Supremes’ sounding groups around waiting in line — they all have rhythm after all, Diana was just luckier or prettier than the others, and the whole music business is just a lot of hype.”