Around 1957 Starr formed a doo-wop group The New Tones & began his cantabile career. Starr sleep in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s and recorded at first for the little label Ric-Tic, & late for the far-famed Motown after it absorbed Ric-Tic in 1968.

A song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a require-off on the James Bond films which were popular at the period.

He recorded supplementary soul music for the next three years prior to getting an international chart-topper inside "25 Miles" (1968). As of 2005 it is one of only ii Starr songs in oldies radio.

A large hit of his career, & a a single which cemented his reputation when one of a outstanding soul creative person, was a anti-Vietnam War protest song "War" (1970). Starr's incredible vocals transformed the Temptations album track into a #1 chart profits, an anthem for the antiwar movement & the ethnical milestone that continues to resound a generation late around film soundtracks and hip hop music samples. Incidentally, a song's parent album - War and Peace - featured an additional song of super similar construction titled "Stop the War Now", which was the kid hit around its have perfect.

He moved to England in 1973. Starr continued to record music into a 1970s, most notably recording a song "Hell Up In Harlem" for the 1974 movie, Hell Up Around Harlem, which was a sequel to Black Caesar, the earliest hit using the soundtrack by James Brown.

Around 1979 Starr reappeared on the charts sustaining the pair of disco hits, titled "(Eye-To-Eye) Contact" & "Happy Radio". By at present he got joined a swell constituted disco boom and experienced more singles retired on the record label 20th Century.

Within 1988 Starr teamed up by having a popular & successful Stock, Aitken and Waterman production company for the club hit "Whatever Makes Our Love Grow".

Starr resurfaced briefly within 2000 to team up by owning British band Utah Saints to record a freshly version of his song "Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" and so once againside in 2002 to record a song by using a British musician Jools Holland, singing "Snowflake Boogie" on Holland's compact disc More Friends, and to record a second track using Utah Saints, a thus far unreleased recently version of his first hit "War"- his last ever recording.

Starr died of the heart attack at the age of 61 in his zero in Beeston near Nottingham.

Song list
(uncomplete)

"Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965) "Back Street" (1966) "Headline News" (1966) "Oh How Happy" (1966) "I Want My Baby Back" (1967) "S.O.S. (Stop Her On Sight)" (1968) "Grits Ain't Grocery" (1968) "25 Miles" (1968) "I'm Still a Struggling Man" (1969) "I Just Wanna Do My Thing" (1970) "Stop the War Now" (1970) "Time" (1970) "War" (1970) "Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" (1971) "My Sweet Lord" (1971) "There You Go" (1973) "Big Papa" (1974) "Easin' In (American Pimp Soundtrack) (1974) "Hell Higher Within Harlem" (1974) "Email" (1979) "Happy Radio" (1979) "Tell-The-Starr" (1979) "It's Known as A Rock" (1979) "Twenty-five Miles (Mix)" (1980) "Make their way Higher-Whirlpool" (1980) "Stronger (Than Professional people Believe We are)" (1980) "Smooth" (1983) "I personally Wanna Require Wise shoppers Front yard" (1983) "Marvin" (1984) "It Own't Fair" (1985) "Missiles" (1985) "Grapevine" (1985) "Soul Singer" (1986) "Whatever Makes My Love Develop" (1988) "Twenty-five Miles (Remix)" (1989) "Foul Music Sho Nuff Turns Us In" (w/Utah Saints) (2000) "Snowflake Boogie" (w/Jools Holland) (2002) "War" (w/Utah Saints) (2002) "Twenty-five Miles" (w/Three Amigos) (2002)