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Dennis Coffey B. In Detroit MI USA Is A Guitarist Notable As A Prominent Studio Musician For Many Soul & Rnb Recordings. He Began Learning The Guitar When He Was Thirteen In Ontonagon County Michigan's Upper Peninsula . At Fifteen He Played On His First Recording Session Backing Vic Gallon On I'm Gone Gondola . In The Early 60s He Joined The Royaltones - Having Hits With Poor Boy 1958 & Flamingo Express 1961 - Who Played Sessions With Other Artists Including Del Shannon. As A Member Of The Funk Brothers Studio Band Coffey Played On Dozens Of Recordings For Motown Records And Introduced The Wah-Wah Guitar Sound To Motown Producer Norman Whitfield's Recordings. He Also Played On Edwin Starr's "S.O.S. Stop Her On Sight " The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing" And Freda Payne's "Band Of Gold". In Addition Coffey Scored The Blaxploitation Film Black Belt Jones. In 1971 Coffey Recorded Scorpio Which Was A Million Selling Single And In 1972 Taurus Both With The Detroit Guitar Band. Since Then He Has Recorded Several Solo Albums Most Of Them For The Sussex And Westbound Labels. In 2004 He Published A Memoir Guitars Bars And Motown Superstars. read less