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Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50 Feature

What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye’s Liberation from the Motown Sound

by Charles Moss

[29.Jan.09] :. When Obie Benson of the Four Tops brought him a song he had co-written with Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye found something that had reflected the way he had been feeling ever since Tammi Terrell's death -- anger, sadness, and disillusionment about his friend's death and the chaotic world around him.

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50

 

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50 Feature

These Are the Breaks: The Motown Sound’s Influence on Hip-Hop Sampling

by John Bohannon

[28.Jan.09] :. For any influential group in the hip-hop game, specifically in the early 1990s, Motown's stamp of approval and its variety of subsidiaries were undeniably influential.

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50

 

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50 Feature

Manufacturing Motown

by Vince Carducci

[27.Jan.09] :. Like the nameplates on the auto industry's productive output, Motown's headline acts were brand identities under which cultural commodities were sold.

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50

 

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Shadows No More: An Interview With Eddie Willis of the Funk Brothers

by Zeth Lundy

[10.Jul.08] :. Guitarist Eddie Willis takes us from the beginnings of Motown through the band's current activities, all with a sense of amazement that he's been part of something so big.

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