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...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
...“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.”...
...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...
...But his attempt to have the final word on Motown’s history is like King Canute ordering back the tide....
...And while no jukebox musical has so far matched the global earning power of Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King or Wicked, a couple – the Abba-themed Mamma Mia!...
...His schoolfriends included Pasquale Rotella, founder of the Electric Daisy Carnival – the biggest electronic music festival in America – and Redfoo (also known as Stefan Kendal Gordy), half of chart-topping...
...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....
...But while the King of Pop has proved an astute collector of music, his legal troubles and reclusive lifestyle had sometimes paralysed management at Sony/ATV....
...It was like King Lear in gold sequins set to a Motown beat....
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