DETROIT, MI -- An updated version of the "Motown 25" TV special will air 8 p.m. Saturday on PBS stations across the country, including Detroit Public Television WTVS. The original "Motown 25 - ...
DETROIT - TJ Lubinsky was an 11-year-old music fan when a 1983 TV special changed his world. "Motown 25," a prime-time NBC program celebrating the Detroit label, had attracted young viewers like him ...
TJ Lubinsky was an 11-year-old music fan when a 1983 TV special changed his world. "Motown 25," a prime-time NBC program celebrating the Detroit label, had attracted young viewers like him with ...
In the spring of 1983, 25 years after Berry Gordy Jr. opened its doors, Motown was on top again. The NBC TV special ‘Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever,’ celebrating the Detroit-formed company’s ...
It was the show that sent Michael Jackson into the stratosphere, burnished Diana Ross' diva reputation and gave Marvin Gaye a final high-profile stage. But it took 31 years for "Motown 25" to make it ...
Michael Jackson is really more my children's generation than mine. He was a cute kid whose talent I always admired and continued to admire as he morphed into the glove wielding, moon walking phenom ...
The Motown legacy was born on May 26, 1983 on NBC during Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. On that night, superstars such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wilson, Smokey Robinson, The Jackson 5 ...
Motown Records stumbled into the 1980s from the ‘70s, watching its greatest hitmakers return to the charts via other labels — Diana Ross at RCA, Marvin Gaye at Columbia and, of course, Michael Jackson ...
Motown luminaries turned out in big numbers Wednesday night to support "The Chairman," company founder Berry Gordy Jr., as "Motown: The Musical" made its Detroit debut at the Fisher Theatre, blocks ...
What is Motown? Only one of the most successful record labels in history. From its founding in 1959, the label presented groups and solo artists including Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Diana Ross and ...
In his 1995 autobiography, pop music impresario Berry Gordy spends 500 pages recounting the 30-year history of Motown Records. In the recent Broadway hit “Motown: the Musical,” playing at the Saenger ...