833 Smokey Robinson (1940- ) and the Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” 1965

"Musician contributor Jon Young remarked that [Robinson's] autobiography 'documents everything from family history and the early days of the Miracles to his extramarital affairs and, most striking, a graphic account of two years in thrall to cocaine in the mid-'80s.' When asked why he chose to provide such candid details about his drug addiction, Robinson responded to Young, 'I wrote it because it was God's will.…At the time I was saved, I was already dead. You are now speaking to Lazarus'" (Contemporary Black Biography, 2005). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears”