The Tracks of My Tears Miracles members Smokey Robinson (lead vocalist), Pete Moore (bass vocalist), and Marv Tarplin (guitarist). In the five-LP publication "The Motown Story", by Motown Records, Robinson explained the origin of this song in these words: "'Tracks of My Tears' was actually started by Marv Tarplin, who is a young cat who plays guitar for our act. So he had this musical thing [sings melody], you know, and we worked around with it, and worked around, and it became 'Tracks of My Tears'." Tarplin's guitar licks at the song's intro are among the most famous in pop music history. "The Tracks of
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said received positive reviews including one from the Los Angeles Times which stated that "the piece is vintage Dick, fluctuating between the inventive and the paranoiac." On February 1, 2004, "Variety" announced that Utopia Pictures & Television had acquired the rights to produce adaptations of three of Dick's novels: "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "VALIS" and "Radio Free Albemuth". In 2007, The Halcyon Company acquired the first-look rights to Dick's works, and in May 2009 they announced that after "Terminator Salvation" (2009), they would next adapt "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said". The book is referenced in 2001 film "