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ObituaryClarence Avant
Clarence Avant, music executive, 1931-2023
...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
August 19, 2023
FT SeriesThe world according to Kate Moss
Rocketman at 50
...Although some raised an eyebrow at John’s announcement – American singer Smokey Robinson noted that John has declared he will retire no less than five times over the years – this tour will include a momentous...
May 11, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ObituaryBarrett Strong
Barrett Strong, songwriter and musician, 1941-2023
...The label’s first million-selling single “Shop Around” was initially intended for Strong until Gordy abruptly decided it would better suit the higher-voiced Smokey Robinson....
February 4, 2023
InterviewMusic
Soul survivors from Motown’s golden age
...“When Smokey Robinson and Bob Rogers first came up with ‘The Way You Do the Things You Do’, I thought it was tomfoolery,” Williams says....
August 30, 2022
Black History Month 2022 — celebrating creativity across the arts
Little Simz: ‘I’ve never felt the need to be the loudest person in the room’
...Numerous voices are heard, from a sample of Smokey Robinson singing and children’s chants to spoken-word appearances by The Crown star Emma Corrin....
August 31, 2021
HTSIThe Hope Issue
The artists’ favourite pick-me-ups
...Josh O’Connor, actor My favourite drink is a “Smokey Kudu”. It’s the signature cocktail of Kudu restaurant in Peckham....
April 30, 2021
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Sun Records
Sun Records cashes in with sale to Primary Wave
...The US group owns the rights to thousands of songs from artists as diverse as Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Burt Bacharach, Prince and Devo....
January 28, 2021
FT SeriesPodcast of the week
Making Beyoncé is an illuminating and alarming podcast about how a star is born
...Robinson songs to her when she was in her mother’s belly....
November 24, 2019
Music
Hitsville: The Making of Motown — a paean to Berry Gordy
...The documentary stresses the role of Smokey Robinson, as friend, counsellor, writer and performer; in the musical, oddly, he serves as Gordy’s buffoon sidekick....
August 23, 2019
ReviewMusic
London Jazz Festival serves up a musical spread led by Herbie Hancock and Corinne Bailey Rae
...Jalen N’Gonda sings with the caressing falsetto of a Smokey Robinson or Al Green and has the relaxed sense of time to match....
November 18, 2019
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: Will You Love Me Tomorrow
.../ I thought I was the asshole, I guess it’s rubbing off,” rapped Kanye on “Devil in a New Dress” against a slickly seductive Smokey Robinson sample from 1973. What was Smokey singing?...
June 24, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Larry Levan: Genius of Time — review
...Robinson’s “And I Don’t Love You”, an atmospheric blend of haunting soul and echoing dub-disco effects....
April 1, 2016
Technology sector
#techFT – Japan’s new hybrid PC model
...(FT, Gartner, IDC, Japan Times) Flag as Important Tracks of my streaming tears Take a good look at the face, as Smokey Robinson urged 50 years ago, of streaming music, and at the chart above, and you’ll...
December 4, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Motown — The Musical, Shaftesbury Theatre, London — review
...This is not simply the story of how a young Detroit man discovered artists such as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and the Four Tops as well as the aforementioned and founded a musical...
March 11, 2016
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’
...Robinson....
September 25, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
Motown stories
...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”....
March 18, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Paul McCartney: The Art of McCartney – review
...Elsewhere Billy Joel shows a knack for mimicking Macca in yowling mode (“Live and Let Die”) and Smokey Robinson turns in a sweet version of 1983’s “So Bad”....
November 14, 2014
Life & Arts
The enduring appeal of Italian menswear
...So I went to see this movie, in the spring of 1980, called American Gigolo, and its now-famous sequence of Richard Gere preening bare-chested to Smokey Robinson, as he picked his way delicately through an...
March 28, 2014
Life & Arts
Hitsville revisited - ‘Motown: The Musical’
...Motown: The Musical, which squeezes 57 songs into its two-and-a-half hours – from the Jackson Five’s “ABC” to Smokey Robinson’s “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” – might be the ultimate in “jukebox musicals...
June 7, 2013
Life & Arts
When growing old gets cool
...Does Robinson know, asks the guitarist, that Dylan once called him the “poet laureate” of American music? Smokey laughs shyly....
October 21, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Plan B: The Defamation of Strickland Banks
...Plan B The Defamation of Strickland Banks 679/Atlantic Ben Drew, east London’s mouthy, guitar-strumming answer to Eminem, gets suited and booted as a Smokey Robinson-indebted soul singer for his second...
April 10, 2010
Life & Arts
Chronicles of Long Kesh, Tricycle, London
...There are a couple of Loyalists – the natty-dressing Thumper and hippy Hank – and a handful of Republicans – the dozy Toot, troubled Eamonn and ebullient Oscar, whose devotion to the music of Smokey Robinson...
March 18, 2010
Life & Arts
Dizzee Rascal, Roundhouse, London
...Other acts appearing in the mini-season, which ends Saturday, include Robbie Williams, Dame Shirley Bassey and Smokey Robinson – unusual company for an east London rapper from the wrong side of the tracks...
October 22, 2009
US & Canadian companies
Wal-Mart benefits from crisis
...Robinson, the veteran Motown singer....
June 5, 2009
Lunch with the FTLife & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Martha Reeves
...The Motown label nurtured some of pop’s most prodigious talents, including the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson....
February 27, 2009

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