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 ...

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 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 ...

Motown the Musical is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown founder Berry Gordy’s incredible ...

(CBS News) There are many, many hits that bear the MOTOWN label. These days, a Broadway marquee boasts the Motown label, too . . . thanks to the man Anthony Mason has been talking with For The Record: ...

This is part of a series of essays to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first American television appearance on CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show." It culminates with CBS News, 50 Years Later...The ...

Many of the living luminaries of the Motown Records empire gathered on Monday morning in a glass-walled conference room above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood to honor one of their own — the man ...

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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 ...