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His follow-up, I'm Still in Love with You (October 1972) went platinum with the help of the singles ' Look What You Done for Me' and the title track, both of which went to the top ten on the Hot 100. The album became his first to be certified gold. The title track was his biggest hit to date, reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. Green's next album, Let's Stay Together (January 1972), solidified his place in soul music.

Green in an appearance on The Mike Douglas Show in 1973 The album also featured his first significant hit, ' Tired of Being Alone', which sold a million copies and was certified gold, becoming the first of eight gold singles Green would release between 19. His follow-up album, Al Green Gets Next to You (1971), featured the hit R&B cover of the Temptations' ' I Can't Get Next to You', recorded in a slow blues-oriented version. Subsequently, he released Green Is Blues (1969), which was a moderate success. Before releasing his first album with Hi, Green removed the final 'e' from his name. Having noted that Green had been trying to sing like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, and James Brown, Mitchell became his vocal mentor, coaching him into finding his own voice. Following the performance, Mitchell asked Green to sign with his Hi Records label. While performing with the Soul Mates, Green came into contact with Memphis record producer Willie Mitchell, who hired him in 1969 to be a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band. However, the group's subsequent follow-ups failed to chart, as did their debut album Back Up Train. The song was a hit on the R&B charts and peaked at Number 46 in the Cash Box Top 100. In 1968, having changed their name to Al Greene & the Soul Mates, they recorded the song ' Back Up Train', releasing it on Hot Line Music. Two of the group's members, Curtis Rodgers and Palmer James, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal.

In high school, Al formed a vocal group called Al Greene & the Creations. Whatever he got, I went out and bought.' When I was 13, I just loved Elvis Presley. But the most important music to me was those hip-shakinвЂ™ boys: Wilson Pickett and Elvis Presley. ' Mahalia Jackson, all the great gospel singers. He then lived with a prostitute, began hustling, and indulged in recreational drugs. Al was kicked out of the family home while in his teens, after his devoutly religious father caught him listening to Jackie Wilson. The Greene family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the late 1950s. Greene, Jr., a sharecropper, Al began performing with his sister in a group called the Greene Brothers at around the age of ten. The sixth of ten children born to Cora Lee and Robert G. ДЄlbert Leornes Greene was born on April 13, 1946, in Forrest City, Arkansas. 65, as well as its list of the 100 Greatest Singers, at No. He was included in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, ranking at No. He has also received the BMI Icon award and is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.

Green is the winner of 11 Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also been referred to as 'The Last of the Great Soul Singers'. He was referred to on the museum's site as being 'one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music'. Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. After an incident in which his girlfriend died by suicide, Green became an ordained pastor and turned to gospel music.

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Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including ' Take Me to the River', ' Tired of Being Alone', ' I'm Still in Love with You', ' Love and Happiness', and his signature song, ' Let's Stay Together'.