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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Supremes | History Defined

Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

During the 1960s, in a country divided by racial strife, the music of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records helped bring people together.

The Conversation

Kanye West releases new album Bully in full on livestream after denying AI use

Controversial rapper, 48, samples The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and other artists on new album

The Independent UK

“Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders

It came a year before Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath released their debut albums

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Jade Thirlwall won't get royalties from Supremes-sampling Before You Break My Heart

Jade Thirlwall agreed to hand over the royalties for her Supremes-sampling new song Before You Break My Heart.

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“Without Chuck Berry there wouldn't have been The Beatles or the Stones. But none of those guys attended his funeral, which I thought was very strange”: Gene Simmons recalls his eulogy for a rock ’n’ roll legend

Plus: the shocking stories Simmons heard from his former partner Diana Ross

MusicRadar

Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey to host 'A Motown Christmas' special honoring the label's legacy

Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey, bridging Motown’s old and new school, will host a a holiday special to honor the groundbreaking record label that changed the music landscape

The Independent UK

Seeing double: The celebrities who nailed co-ordinated looks

From fully identical outfits to subtle ways they connect their styles, these celebrities made statements with co-ordinated looks

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Abdul Fakir: Last original Four Tops member dies aged 88

Abdul Fakir died on Monday of heart failure, according to a family spokesperson, with his wife and other loved ones by his side

Evening Standard

Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, last surviving member of Four Tops, dies aged 88

The beloved Motown group’s co-founder died of a heart failure and had been struggling with bladder cancer

The Guardian - US

Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, last of the original Four Tops, is dead at 88

The last surviving original member of the Four Tops has died

The Independent UK

War, disastrous sex and a lot of lawsuits: the chaotic aftermath of Motown’s peak years

Disenchanted with Motown, star songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland set up a pair of bold new labels: Hot Wax and Invictus. As a new box set is released, its artists remember their personal, political songs – and exhausting battles

The Guardian - UK

From pillowy pop to foot-stomping beats: The Supremes’ 20 best songs – ranked!

Sixty years on from their first US No 1, Where Did Our Love Go, we rate the Motown group’s greatest singles – sung with and without Diana Ross

The Guardian - UK

Tyler Perry Celebrates Ms. Diana Ross's 80Th Birthday With Photos

Tyler Perry celebrates Diana Ross's 80th birthday with heartwarming pictures, highlighting her enduring beauty and talent in the music industry.

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The Rejects by Jamie Collinson review – almost famous

From Pete Best to Florence Ballard and the guy who managed to get fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, a history of rock and pop’s also-rans

The Guardian - UK

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‘He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup’: the bitterest music-duo spats

With Hall & Oates now saying ‘no can do’ to their partnership, we look at the other pop pairs who fell out of harmony

The Guardian - UK

Victoria Monét review – a fully fledged class act

Channelling Beyoncé and the Supremes yet emphatically her own artist, the songwriter to the stars turned multiple Grammy nominee steps into the limelight

The Guardian - UK

Katherine Anderson obituary

Singer with the Marvelettes, whose single Please Mr Postman was Motown Records’ first No 1

Zenger

Angelo Diaz Shares His Thoughts On SAG-AFTRA Strike And New Executive Role With The Copacabana

Diaz gets his creative juices flowing as Copacabana’s new Executive Creative Director.

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Daylight rubbery: the cemetery stalker who turns celebrity gravestones into art

Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Nikita Khrushchev … Scott Covert takes rubbings at big names’ graves, often getting chased away. ‘It breaks my heart,’ he says, ‘when I hear someone’s been cremated’

Evening Standard

Girls Aloud are reportedly getting back together: we pick the best girl bands of all time

Despite there being so many fantastic acts to pick from, we’ve managed to narrow down the list to just ten

The Orange County Register

The Last Temptation: Otis Williams talks Motown and the Temptations musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Otis Williams, the last of the original Temptations, says each time he sees “Ain’t Too Proud,” the Broadway musical based on the lives of the legendary Motown vocal group, it feels as amazing as the first.

The Independent UK

Springsteen takes on Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops

Bruce Springsteen is taking on the work of the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes and other soul legends for a covers album that's coming out in November

The Guardian - UK

From Reach Out I’ll Be There to Heat Wave: six of Lamont Dozier’s best songs

The hugely influential Motown songwriter and one third of Holland-Dozier-Holland, who has died aged 81, wrote for the likes of Diana Ross, the Four Tops and Chairmen of the Board

Chicago Sun-Times

Lamont Dozier, Motown co-songwriter and producer of hits such as ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ and ‘Heatwave,’ dead at 81

From 1963 to 1967, Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland crafted more than 25 top 10 songs.

The Guardian - UK

Lamont Dozier: the Motown master craftsman who created miracles under pressure

As one third of a legendary songwriting and production partnership, Dozier produced a slew of indelible hits that expressed the joy and frustration of a whole generation

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