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Dennis Edwards, a Temptation who stood nine feet tall

"The first time I met Dennis Edwards, I thought he stood nine feet tall.

As I recall, it was 1977. Edwards, who died of meningitis in a Chicago hospital on Friday, a day short of his 75th birthday, strode into the Los Angeles offices of SOUL Magazine that day to give his first interview after leaving the Temptations. And I had assigned it to me.

Since replacing David Ruffin in 1968, Edwards had led the group through a period of groundbreaking creativity and commercial success that produced such iconic hits as "Cloud Nine," (Motown's first Grammy Award winner) "I Can't Get Next to

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