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Exploring the unexpected connection between Detroit's Motown Records and 'Lust For Life', the defining anthem of Detroit's ...
Check out these nine shows around town this week. ♥️ Heart brings some of the biggest hits of the classic rock era to ...
Looking at five of the most bizarre, strange, and unexpected records ever released by the iconic Detroit soul and R&B label ...
Motown Records carried on and thrived well beyond its Detroit era, of course, and today the L.A. label is home to artists such as Vince Staples, Erykah Badu and Kem.
Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with ...
Classic Motown singers and groups — some of which still boast an original member or two — certainly "can't forget the Motor City," to quote a Reeves and the Vandellas hit, on a tour.
Motown's biggest stars are all represented in the new Broadway musical. Gordy said when he saw the woman playing Diana Ross come on stage, "it was really tough for me not to kiss her!" ...
— Motown in Love. The book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Richard Pryor hosts performances by Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and more. Motown 25, the famous 1983 special on which Michael Jackson debuted his signature moonwalk and Smokey ...
Motown icon Lamont Dozier, who crafted such iconic hits as "Baby Love" and "Two Hearts," has died at 81. He was one of the creators of the "Motown sound." ...