It’s wowed the critics in New York – “A joy ride! “ (The New York Times), “Stunning!” (AP) and “More than a Broadway show … a celebration of music that transformed America” (CBS Sunday Morning) – and now Motown the Musical, on its first national tour, is about to scatter its gold dust over San Francisco.
The Motown Sound had its origins in the early 1960s – the brainchild of Berry Gordy Jr, a high-school dropout who had two passions in life – music and boxing. Music finally won the day, and Gordy, at the age of 19, set about writing what would turn out to be a cascade of hit songs which would take the world by storm. In 1959 he established the Tamla recording label in his home city of Detroit, and a year later incorporated it into the Motown Record Corporation – the company taking its title from the name by which America’s motor city was affectionately known.
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