Motown Music Great Nick Ashford Dies
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Another Music Legend Gone Too Soon Nick Ashford and his wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of your favorite love ballads on Motown records as the duo Ashford & Simpson. Ashford, 69, died Monday in a New York hospital. He was undergoing radiation treatments for throat cancer. Their biggest hit as artists was “Solid (As A […]