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6. Motown caps 50th anniversary with hometown gala
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 15 hours ago
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Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, along with Aretha Franklin, Kid Rock and Motown's original kid, Stevie Wonder, came to Motown's original hometown for the Motown 50 Golden Gala. The 50th-anniversary event, which fetched $350 and up for a ticket, was...
Tags: Motown Records Corp., Berry Gordy, Esther Gordy Edwards, AM Motown, Motown Historical Museum, Detroit Pistons, Kid Rock, Aretha Franklin, 50th anniversary, Los Angeles, Gordy family, The Miracles, Hitsville U.S.A., Motown Records, Motown, Culture of Detroit Michigan, Entertainment Culture
Motown Means Something to us All
Fifty years later after borrowing $800 to begin a dream, the founder, producer, yogi extraordinaire, has come to shower in his success in Detroit, Michigan. Motown is that old and so are you. It may not be in age, but somehow, somewhere the beat has...
Tags: Music, Motown, Barry Gordy, Soul, Beat, Love, Life, lost, Detroit, Kid Rock, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Berry Gordy, Motown Records, Entertainment Culture, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, allnews
Look who's 50: Motown anniversary draws rock royalty
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr., along with Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Kid Rock, came to Motown's...
Tags: Motown Records Corp, Motown Historical Museum, Detroit House Party, Detroit, Motown Records, Berry Gordy, Motown Records discography, African American culture, Motown, Stevie Wonder, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues, Music of Detroit Michigan, Hitsville U.S.A., Human Interest, Culture of Detroit Michigan, Gordy family, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Esther Gordy Edwards
Motown celebrates its 50th anniversary with Stevie Wonder, Temptations performance
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, and other headliners will perform at Motown's 50th anniversary in Detroit on November 20-21. The event, titled 'Live It Again!' benefits the Motown Historical Museum, located in the original "Hitsville...
Tags: Motown Historical Museum, Detroit, Motown Records, Music of Detroit Michigan, Hitsville U.S.A., The Temptations, Berry Gordy, Motown, Culture of Detroit Michigan, African American culture, Hospitality Recreation
Motown at 50
Over the years there have been many record companies to come and go. In 1959 Berry Gordy Jr. decided to start a record label in the middle of the auto industry kingdom. And so Motown was begun and over the years the company has spawned such...
Tags: Motown, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Sinbad, Berry Gordy
Smokey Robinson
London :: United Kingdom | 28 days ago
Credibility Yui Mok/PA "You guys sound great!" gushes William "Smokey" Robinson as a sold-out Electric Proms audience help him with the chorus of I Second That Emotion. But self-effacement was the least of his gifts on display here, as the 69-year-old gave a masterclass...
Tags: BBC Electric Proms, Smokey Robinson, Motown
Ellen DeGeneres Show Sued
Shortly after talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres announced that she would be the fourth judge on the popular music reality show "American Idol", the producers of the talk show were sued by a number of record companies for playing songs...
Tags: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Arista, Virgin, Sony, Atlantic, Motown
Vancouver Sun: Burnaby Blues & Roots Fest: Where there's Smokey, there's fire
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Smokey Robinson is the original Motown hit machine and itâs a torch he carries today, ever more solitary. Robinson and his Motown partner Berry Gordie both eulogized Michael Jackson at his memorial service in Los Angeles last month, Gordie calling the...
Tags: Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordie, Motown
What Motown Means To Me
Would you believe I am influenced by Motown music as a writer? I want what I write to be catchy, bouncy, dynamically innovative. Motown, founded by Berry Gordy, redefined music and gave the world Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross,...
Tags: motown, berry gordy, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, supremes, gladys knight, pips, the miracles, smoeky robinson, shop around, detroit, motor city, soul, jazz, blues, pop, music
Michael Jackson's coffin smuggled out of his memorial
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility King of Pop' Michael Jackson's body was taken from his memorial service via a special tunnel to ensure fans couldn't mob the casket, according to a new report. Security guards reportedly took the 50-year-old pop icon's casket through the hidden walkway...
Tags: Michael Jackson, want, memorial service, Berry Gordy, forest lawn, Motown
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