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...He is also name-checked in songs by Jay-Z and John Legend. “I feel like a young kid at a big company that I know actually cares about where my music is going, even though I’m 74,” says Elton John....
...It was in distinct contrast to that other Detroit sound, the smooth pan-racial pop Berry Gordy strove to create for his Motown label....
...Strong had recorded the song for Berry Gordy Jr’s nascent Tamla Motown label (then called Tamla) in 1959....
...He was the poster kid for the explosion of black pop music’s popularity under the guiding hand of Berry Gordy and his Motown outfit....
...At first he earned a reputation as an astute businessman, well advised by figures from Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, to Walter Yetnikoff, head of CBS Records, and then John Branca, an entertainment lawyer...
...“Money (That’s What I Want)” by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford....
...Gordy split up the groups in the hotels to encourage cohesion among the label’s artists....
...And if Motown’s Berry Gordy lacked Spector’s bombastic pretension, he also thought primarily in terms of distinctive singles rather than consistent live acts....
...Gordy is a doll From Russia, with love. Selling like hot cakes in Moscow – so I am told – is a new version of those wooden dolls that unscrew at the waist to show smaller dolls within....
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