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100 1 $aPosner, Gerald L.
245 10 $aMotown :$bmusic, money, sex, and power /$cGerald Posner.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House Trade Paperbacks,$c©2005, ©2002.
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500 $a2005 Random House Trade Paperback.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index.
505 0 $aSources and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Detroit dreaming -- 2: Sliding into music -- 3: My cycle of success -- 4: Going solo -- 5: Smokey dreams -- 6: Impostor of success -- 7: Hitsville -- 8: Honesty and raw soul -- 9: I call it music with black stars -- 10: Avalanche of talent -- 11: Hitting the groove -- 12: Battle of the stars -- 13: How many think it's a hit? -- 14: Defector -- 15: Ghost tour -- 16: Dueling songwriters -- 17: More a family than a business -- 18: Color-blind -- 19: Skipping the revolution -- 20: Cracks in the wall -- 21: Mafia product from start to finish -- 22: Don't you trust us? -- 23: Suitcases of cash -- 24: We would survive -- 25: Born star -- 26: Winds of change -- 27: Lady sings the blues -- 28: Beginning of the end -- 29: Mahogany -- 30: Hunting season -- 31: Problems all over the place -- 32: I felt like a failure -- 33: Motown at 25 -- 34: Everything had changed -- 35: Final curtain -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 $aFrom the Publisher: In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building's entrance was adorned with a large sign that improbably boasted "Hitsville U.S.A." The kitchen served as the control room, the garage became the two-track studio, the living room was reserved for bookkeeping, and sales were handled in the dining room. Soon word spread that any youngster with a streak of talent should visit the only record label that Detroit had seen in years. The company's name was Motown. Motown cuts through decades of unsubstantiated rumors and speculation to tell the true behind-the-scenes narrative of America's most exciting musical dynasty. It follows the company and its amazing roster of stars from the tumultuous growth years in Detroit, to the drama and intrigue of Hollywood in the 1970s, to resurgence in 2002. Set against the civil rights movement, the decay of America's northern industrial cities, and the social upheaval of the 1960s, Motown is a tale of the incredible entrepreneurship of Berry Gordy. But it also features the moving stories of kids from Detroit's inner-city projects who achieved remarkable success and then, in many cases, found themselves fighting the demons that so often come with stardom-drugs, jealousy, sexual indulgence, greed, and uncontrollable ambition. Motown features an extraordinary cast of characters, including Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder. They are presented as they lived and worked: a clan of friends, lovers, competitors, and sometimes vicious foes. Motown reveals how the hopes and dreams of each affected the lives of the others and illustrates why this singular story is a made-in-America Greek tragedy, the rise and fall of a supremely talented yet completely dysfunctional extended family. Based on numerous original interviews and extensive documentation, Motown benefits particularly from the thousands of pages of files crammed into the basement of downtown Detroit's Wayne County Courthouse. Those court records provide the unofficial-and hitherto largely untold-history of Motown and its stars, since almost every relationship between departing singers, songwriters, producers, and the label ended up in litigation. From its peaks in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Motown controlled the pop charts and its stars were sought after even by the Beatles, through the inexorable slide caused by their failure to handle their stardom, Motown is a riveting and troubling look inside a music label that provided the unofficial soundtrack to an entire generation.
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