Dumbuk was small, and so they used to pick on him all the time
Tiny hairs in the airways, called cilia, sweep out toxins and other bacteria, but tobacco smoking prevent them from doing their job
Haemoglobin (carries oxygen through the blood stream) prefers carbon monoxide (present in cigarette smoke) to oxygen
Later I learned that the castle he would inherit in Limerick was not a castle but a humble Georgian house, medievalized in 1820 with pasteboard battlements, arrow slits and castellated gate lodges, saved from ruin by his stepfather, a Canadian millionaire
Recordings such as these stand both as testaments to the artists diverse musical interest areas (Gaye, most notably, initially hoped to establish himself as a Nat King Cole-style crooner) and the pressure the industry felt to establish their young acts as legitimate in the eyes of both the public at large and (as Motowns Berry Gordy recalled) booking agents at top nightclubs, who were looking for stylistically flexible talent to appeal to varying demographics