Every so often in a field or endeavor, someone comes along and
revolutionizes standards or reshape the rules of the game. Such people are
considered
innovators and revolutionary. Then you have a chance element that defies
convention and requires new language be created to encapsulate new sha
Not to take anything away from Motown, but I often wondered why James
Brown (one of the true, true, true geniuses of American popular music
and culture) stayed away from them. So I did a bit of reading and
learned a lot (for me anyway, since I knew so little when I started)
about the music business
OK . . . something got to be done for Lionel Richie. Easy is tearing me up.
Then we have to have statues of the Commodores.
"Why in the world would anybody
put chains on me."
Everything Commodores and Lionel is alright.
Yall think Detroit is big enough to hold all the music?
If we con
Got me thinking about the new movie about Chess Records. I didn't like the
casting; the music or the characterization of Chess. Beyonce's good looks was
not enough to carry the movie. Her portrayal of Etta James border on the
criminal. She did not understood the mood of that period of history
Detroit should be a music Mecca, and Martha Reeves efforts towards this end
is simply wonderful. Music and the arts should be the biggest industry in
Detroit. To hell with the auto industry. That day in the sun is long passed.
Detroit was once a wonderful Jazz center, rooted in the old Black
January 9, 2009
Celebrating Motown all year long
Monday starts a week of activities at the Motown Historical Museum on West
Grand Boulevard, including a news conference with Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel
Jr., on-site radio broadcasts and half-price admission Monday through Friday.
Motown fig
December 22, 2008
http://www.freep.com/article/20081222/NEWS01/812220380/1039/Ent04
Make Motown greats art, Reeves says
Singing legend raising funds to erect life-size sculptures in Detroit
BY SUZETTE HACKNEY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Detroit City Councilwoman Martha Reeves is leading a $3-milli
We can sing our Owl of Minerva song.
By the way, Martha Reeves is on City Council.
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25 years ago during the Motown 25 celebration, Michael Jackson moon walked
into history. Motown 50 seems to be passing without much fanfare. What a sad
day.
Where Did Our Lo
Barry Gordy has been on the TV talk show circuit. Motown was also
featured in the news, at least in BBC America. I don't know about the networks.
"Innervisions" is definitely a masterpiece. I remember listening to
it constantly in 1973-4.
I wasn't that keen on the Supremes. My favorite girl gr
25 years ago during the Motown 25 celebration, Michael Jackson moon walked
into history. Motown 50 seems to be passing without much fanfare. What a sad
day.
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson
George remains the best overall book on the origins of the
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