The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...

From 1965 until 1985, Berry Gordy's little brother helped grow Jobete Music from a holding company for copyrights into a music publishing force. By Adam White Robert Louis Gordy, Sr., younger brother ...

With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...

The love was flowing strong in the room as Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated his 96 th birthday. At a party Saturday, Nov. 29, teeming with famous friends, fellow music executives and family ...

The Chairman has stepped down — and likely taken his final bow in Detroit. Berry Gordy, the Detroit native who built Motown Records from a shoestring operation into a music, film and television empire ...

At the ripe old age of 89, Berry Gordy, who built Motown Records into a multimedia empire in the 1960s and 1970s, has announced his retirement. “I have come full circle,” he said onstage during Motown ...

Robert Bateman, the songwriter behind such Motown hits as "Please Mr. Postman" and "Playboy," died this morning in Sherman Oaks, Calif., of a massive heart attack. He was 80. Bateman, who still ...

DETROIT — The Motown mogul who launched the careers of numerous stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and Michael Jackson has announced his retirement. The Detroit Free Press reports Berry Gordy said ...

One of the greatest songwriters ever, Smokey Robinson, looks back on his singular career in the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, breaking down his artistic process and telling ...

Cholly Atkins, who joined Charles “Honi” Coles in probably the most distinctively elegant tap-dance duo of the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, but later achieved his greatest fame as a choreographer ...

In a glass-walled conference room above Sunset Boulevard, many of the living luminaries of the Motown Records empire gathered Monday to honor one of their own — the man responsible for launching more ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Brian Seibert Five handsome men, dressed sharp. Golden-voiced singers, each distinctly soulful, harmonizing on hit after hit. That they could also ...