Eddie Kendricks Is A Private Man

[SeainDennis]

From 1976, an excerpt :

Because of Motown's move to LA & concert bookings on the West Coast, Eddie divides his time between his Santa Monica apartment & his Detroit home. Although he lives with two constant companions, Eddie enjoys "cooling it around the pad."
"I hang out with Obie Benson of The Four Tops & David Ruffin when I'm in Detroit. If there's a good show in town I'll go to see that, but mostly I just hang around the house."
The two Motown artists, their wives & David Harris, his road manager & Ron Davis, his "does-a-lot-things man" form the nucleus of one of "baddest bid whisk aggregations in the Motor City."
Harris and David travel with Eddie whereever he goes, performing more than personal services. "David & Ron are my friends. It's only relationship I've seen where business and pleasure are mixed and the business stays intact."
Eddie's rather cloistered existence comes from some particularly upsetting experiences when he did venture into the public's eye to relax.
"I don't go to movies any more. The last time I went to a theatre I caught myself trying to be inconspicuous by sitting way down in the seat. But lo-and-behold, here comes this young lady and she looked & looked. Then all of a sudden she told the other girls who were with her who I was and we finally had to leave."
........"Consequently I don't put myself in the position of having to sign autographs at movies or concerts. I just don't go."

[SeainDennis]

BOT for the gang!

[FastNFancy]

Is this some sort of tease or what? :mad: Are you gonna finish posting the article or what? What is all this BOT stuff? I wanna read the article, darn it!

[SeainDennis]

Okay, the pic didn't come out! I had posted a pic there but apparently the site probably doesn't do hotlinking! Big dummies! Anyway, this article is pretty long & I'm just gonna post another excerpt from it later.

[SeainDennis]

Article from 1976 con't.

Eddie's choice of clothes & accesories:

...Because of his build, 6'2" & 148 lbs., he usually get his clothes tailor made.
"I can't wear American clothes off the rack, so I usually get a French or Italian line that fits pretty good."
In LA, he goes to Louis Roth & in NY, you can sometimes find him at Raphael's Warehouse in the heart of "The City".
As far as fabrics go Eddie says he relies on the feel of the material.
"I prefer a good garbardine and can generally tell the quality of the material by the touch. Now, I like leathers, but I won't wear leather pants because they just won't hang right. They'll either swing to the middle or the outside. That's the difference in wearing clothes. It has to lay in the right position."
Jewelry is one of the things Eddie wears all the time. Sometimes wearing turquoise, silver and gold rings on every finger and numerous African-styled bracelets on each arm. Most of the jewelry he wears are gifts, he says.

[SeainDennis]

Okay, I went back reposted the pic. It came out! Yipee! :bounce: