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One of the chief pleasures of James Mangold’s acclaimed new Bob Dylan film biography “A Complete Unknown” comes from the assistance it provides to old-timers often trying, usually failing ...
The Motown piano is an 1877 Steinway & Sons Model D grand piano, used by many musicians including the Funk Brothers studio band, at the Hitsville U.S.A. Studio B from 1967 to 1972. On July 24, 2011, Paul McCartney was in Detroit for a performance at Comerica Park , as part of his On the Run Tour ; he visited the Motown Museum for a private ...
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (né Gay; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) [1] was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
Garage rock was a form of amateurish rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and so called because of the perception that it was rehearsed in a suburban family garage. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Garage rock songs revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. [ 23 ]
I would come to the South in the early days of Motown and the audiences would be segregated. Then they started to get the Motown music and we would go back and the audiences were integrated and the kids were dancing together and holding hands. [21] Berry Gordy's House, known as Motown Mansion in Detroit's Boston-Edison Historic District [22]
In honor of the 60-year celebration of the Temptations’ first No. 1 hit, the Temptations have been out on the media circuit, plugging a song that really needs no plugging — clearly, from the ...
Also on Motown 25, Michael Jackson reunited with his brothers for a medley of the Jackson 5’s greatest hits. (Photo: Getty Images). (Photo: Getty Images). Ultimately, Jackson was happy with ...
Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959–1971 is a 1992 four-CD collection of Motown hits, during Motown's golden age when the songs were recorded at its original Detroit studio. [1] The selections on this compilation were transferred from the original single mixes, which were mixed for AM radio play and 45 RPM singles.