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...Opportunities were limited by Gordy’s iron grip over Motown....
...At first they tried recording standards, but Gordy shelved those tracks, wanting something suitable for the R&B market. “We was disappointed,” Fakir says. “And we let him know....
...These have been able to consistently produce successful acts, just as Berry Gordy’s Motown did. JYP, for example, has maintained operating margins of about 30 per cent since 2019....
...The Motown formula was growing tired and Gordy’s control over their work had become stifling. The former child stars faced an uncertain adulthood....
...The artists were competing against each other to see who would be the first one to get that big hit out of there, like how it was with my man Berry Gordy in his Motown days....
...Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records 62 years ago, signed Bob Marley and now lives in Ian Fleming’s old home in Jamaica, rattles off a list of music business legends, from Motown’s Berry Gordy to...
...It’s a celebration of pop’s greatest label, and you can’t celebrate that without paying tribute to Gordy....
...This sage advice was part of the grooming process undergone by artists signed to Berry Gordy’s Motown label in the 1960s....
...“Martin Luther King would come hang out with Berry Gordy when we were on the road. We knew things were happening, and we knew we had a voice that could be heard. We were an example.”...
...Sarah Gordy, as Kelly, is great — witty, passionate and stubborn — with Penny Layden both tough and touching as her mother....
...It was in distinct contrast to that other Detroit sound, the smooth pan-racial pop Berry Gordy strove to create for his Motown label....
...Founded in 1985 by Esther Gordy Edwards, former senior vice-president of Motown and sister of label founder Berry Gordy, the museum is centred around the “Hitsville USA” headquarters where artists including...
...It is also unexpected, as all people entering the court are subject to a security inspection,” said Professor Eric Gordy, of University College London....
...It was a homage to the 1985 martial arts flick The Last Dragon, produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy with a predominantly African-American cast, and a forerunner to Black Panther , the groundbreaking superhero...
...towards the end of his time at the agency in the mid-1990s: Meyer took a job at Universal that Ovitz had coveted and, in a fit of pique, Ovitz then bought a $5.5m Malibu house that was being sold by Berry Gordy...
...Directed by Graham Gordy and Michael D Fuller, 2016 Warner/HBO Alas, not every HBO series can be a winner....
...Westbrook’s New Orleans-styled “Gordy Bar” was the encore. Westbrook rolled; Gee decorated with sensitivity, vigour and a gravelly voice. Steinway Festival ends on March 19, pizzaexpresslive.com...
...was relaunching Polygram as an independent business that will debut with The Story of Motown, a new documentary about the Detroit record label with “unprecedented” participation from its founder, Berry Gordy...
...[Berry Gordy’s parents], ‘Mom’ and ‘Pops’ Gordy, as we lovingly called them, treated us all as their own.” Several stars were literally children....
...This stage musical about the legendary record label founded by Berry Gordy focuses its story on Berry Gordy; based on the autobiography of Berry Gordy, the script is written by . . . you guessed it....
...Motown boss Berry Gordy had a quality control department for deciding whether a song should be released....
...Strong had recorded the song for Berry Gordy Jr’s nascent Tamla Motown label (then called Tamla) in 1959....
...It was an assessment he seemed to agree with: “I always said I wanted to be to tech like Berry Gordy was to Motown.”...
...Nearly 10 years had passed since Dozier and the Holland brothers, Eddie and Brian, had parted company from Berry Gordy’s Motown label after writing a torrent of pop classics (“Baby Love” and “Reach Out I...
...They buy, renovate and rent out houses in a historic neighbourhood close to the site of the 1967 race riots, and where both Henry Ford and Motown Records label founder Berry Gordy Jr owned mansions....
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