Motown Records’ creative ingenuity and commercial prowess made it a hit machine, one that’s still chugging along today — indeed, a list of Motown classics could fill a book. For now, here are 50 ...

In the 1960s, Motown started a musical revolution that would result in some of the best soul music of all time.

Well before the platinum records and packed arenas, Meat Loaf was a striving singer with a stint in Detroit and an obscure Motown release under his belt. Meat Loaf, who died Thursday at 74, would go ...

Declaring we live in times that urgently call for “information alongside inspiration,” Motown Records is relaunching one of its signature labels. Black Forum, a spoken-word and poetry subsidiary that ...

Berry Gordy Jr. is known for being Motown’s legendary founder and producer but few know that he was also a songwriter early on for many of the hits prior to the founding of the label. Sign up for our ...

When it first broke that Motown’s Spinners were finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with this year’s slate of honorees, Nov. 3 in Brooklyn, New York, the news was so welcome, ...

There are very few genres of music that don’t draw inspiration from the legendary Motown sound. So, it’s no wonder that people travel from all over the world to set foot in the Detroit home—turned ...

NEW YORK — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters, who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single, “Money (That’s What I Want),” and later collaborated with ...