Hints and tips:
...(The label boss imperiously woke Robinson in the middle of the night to tell him.)...
...Famous for the unprecedented barbarity of Lee Marvin throwing a pot of boiling coffee into the face of his girlfriend, Gloria Grahame....
...the Motown machine: Paul Riser’s glorious orchestral arrangement for “My Girl” by The Temptations, and how it intertwines with Robert White’s guitar and James Jamerson’s bass, and the sublime layering of Marvin...
...Cocooned in a black Marvin Gaye hoodie, silver Louis Vuitton bomber jacket and BlacKkKlansman beanie, it looks like he has yet to acclimatise to the wet and windy English winter....
...Gordy, a songwriter and producer rather than a performer, seems to get more numbers to sing than figures such as Diana Ross or Marvin Gaye; the character of Gaye even cedes to Gordy the lead on “What’s Going...
...In 1960, Smokey Robinson’s group The Miracles were ordered to the studio at 3am by a sleepless Gordy in order to recut their song “Shop Around”....
...Twitter shares were buoyed on Monday by an upgrade from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’, as analysts with the bank warm to the company’s prospects and depressed stock price....
...the songwriting trio behind the Supremes’ 1966 hit “You Can’t Hurry Love”, were among the former protégés who ended up trading lawsuits with Gordy over royalty disputes; artists including Diana Ross and Marvin...
...The Motown label nurtured some of pop’s most prodigious talents, including the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson....
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...Gaye and Smokey Robinson....
...Jancis Robinson’s tasting notes on the Munich Yquems are on purple pages of www.jancisrobinson.com...
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