Looking at five of the most bizarre, strange, and unexpected records ever released by the iconic Detroit soul and R&B label ...

It didn’t take very long for Motown to graduate from being a small, shoestring operation in the heart of Detroit to being a ...

During a chat with VIBE, KEM revealed how Motown — the city and the label — shaped him, the significance of “Give My Love,” who/what inspires his music, his dream career if he weren’t a professional ...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with ...

Richard Pryor hosts performances by Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and more. Motown 25, the famous 1983 special on which Michael Jackson debuted his signature moonwalk and Smokey ...

Classic Motown singers and groups — some of which still boast an original member or two — certainly "can't forget the Motor City," to quote a Reeves and the Vandellas hit, on a tour.

— Motown in Love. The book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.

With a song selection that dips into some 60 nuggets from the Motown catalog, ranging from late-‘50s Jackie Wilson to early-‘80s Teena Marie and Rick James, the musical will be catnip to Baby ...