"War" Singer Edwin Starr Dead

Soul singer Edwin Starr, who topped the charts in 1970 with his fiery, iconic, anti-war song "War," died yesterday at his home in Nottingham, England; he was sixty-one. The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack.
Starr was born Charles Hatcher on January 21, 1942 in Nashville, and he started his first band, the Future Tones, as a teenager. He did a two-year stint in the army between 1960 and 1962 before moving to Detroit. A music manager there heard his voice and told Hatcher he would be a star. He added an "R" to that description, took on his middle name Edwin, and his stage name was born.