| #504792 in eBooks | 2009-04-02 | 2009-04-02 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By grooove|Great Motown history! I am a Motown historian and still learn more behind the scenes stuff!|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Excellent.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Anita J Taylor|From Publishers Weekly|This useful but often flat history of legendary Motown Records is the first music-related work by Posner, who is best known for his books on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy (Case Closed) and Martin Luther King Jr. (Killing the Dream)
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 gar...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power | Gerald Posner. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
