Motown Hit Machine Norm Whitfield Dies
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LOS ANGELES (Sept. 17) - Norman Whitfield, who co-wrote a string of Motown
classics including "War" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," has died.
He was 67.
A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says Whitfield died there
Tuesday. He suffered from complications of diabetes and had recently emerged
from a coma, The Detroit Free Press reported.
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