On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...
It's also the day a 29-year-old boxer, assembly line worker and songwriter named Berry Gordy Jr. used an $800 family loan to start a record company in Detroit. Fifty years later, Motown Records ...
Bernie Yeszin, the former Motown art director who designed many of the label’s famous album covers and created the iconic “M” logo, has passed away. Detroit native Yeszin died on Tuesday ...
A quarter century ago, four Motown singers, the pillars of Motown Records – Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross – paid homage to the father of their pride.