Jools on Edwin

Jools Holland has been paying tribute to the late Edwin Starr who died last week. One of Starr's last projects was working on Hollands' 'More Friends' album. "I was devastated by that," Holland has told Aussie website Undercover. "We worked with him on quite a few occasions going back to TV shows and live gigs with him and he's the most extraordinary man, he's actually like one of the great opera singers from years ago because he never used monitors. Every singer I know has speakers on stage, you can always see them and he'd always have them switched off, his voicewas so powerful, he never used them. I'm very sorry."