Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

Smokey Wrote That, produced by AARP Studios, will feature the Motown legend reflecting on a number of his classic songs Smokey Robinson is looking back on one of his greatest musical masterpieces of ...

Detroiters know how special Motown music can be. Now, it’s being introduced to a younger crowd through a new show. Netflix’s ‘Motown Magic’ is about a boy named Ben and his friends, who take on new ...

At the start of this turbulent new century, music documentaries had mostly been relegated to one-hour episodes of VH1’s Behind The Music or the BBC’s Classic Albums. While both series were highly ...

T.G. Sheppard knows exactly how people at home may have felt when they were watching Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, the landmark 1983 TV special honoring one of the most enduring record ...

If you think of some of the most memorable songs from the twentieth century, there's a good chance one of the tunes that comes to mind is the product of Motown — a record label based in Detroit that ...

Upon the 65 th anniversary of the record label, CU Boulder prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new’ Shawn O’Neal, assistant teaching professor ...

We’re accustomed to seeing Berry Gordy’s big smile, but his grin on the occasion of the Kennedy Honors ceremony Dec. 5 was so broad that his face was in imminent danger of splitting in two. The Motown ...

Motown the Musical is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown founder Berry Gordy’s incredible ...

Related: This Music Trivia Quiz Is Deceptively Hard, So Let's Put Your Knowledge To The Test From the 1960's through the 1970's, Motown launched the careers of many musicians. Stevie Wonder, Gladys ...