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Apr 5, 2024 · Coming of age. That tells a story in itself. In the second half of the 70s, the label seemed to drift. While Motown should have been a shoo-in for disco dominance, Diana Ross was a touch too ...
Mar 15, 2007 · Motown continued to release hit records by a new generation of artists including The Jackson 5 and Lionel Richie. The company, however, floundered and Gordy was forced to sell Motown Records to MCA in 1988 for $61 million dollars. Motown continues under its own name to release albums by artists such as Erykah Badu and Brian McKnight although it ...
Feb 21, 2020 · Motown’s rock label, Rare Earth, launched in 1969, faced similar difficulties. The band of the same name had a few hits and wanted to rock, but they broke big through being marketed like a soul ...
Thames & Hudson has announced a new, authorised visual history of Motown Records, published in the U.K. on March 14. Motown: The Sound Of Young America features more than 1,000 illustrations, including colour and black-and-white images of all the company’s major stars: Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson ...
Motown Records churned out hit singles with remarkable efficiency, thanks largely to a stable of skilled professional session musicians. However, exactly who played on their most iconic recordings remains a mystery because, as was standard within the music industry, no Motown release in the 1960s credited these musicians for their work.
Jul 14, 2011 · That song became a surprising Top 10 hit and also helped set the tone for what would be a short and often strange history for the label. Other Motown subsidiaries were genre-specific, such as the ...
Apr 11, 2023 · Known as the “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson was a best-selling American singer, songwriter, and dancer. As a child, Jackson became the lead singer of his family’s popular Motown group, the ...
