The Miracles “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” Remarkably, one of the Miracles’ biggest hits began life as a single B-side. In November 1962, “Happy Landing,” a nondescript up-tempo number featuring a ...

Joan Osborne has a long string of solo albums, a side project with Trigger Hippy, and a forthcoming album that's entirely focused on the songs of Bob Dylan, but the adventurous singer and songwriter ...

Case in point, the British synth-pop group Soft Cell, which comprised members, vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David ...

So take a good look at my face. You'll see my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears... My smile is my makeup I wear since my breakup with you. -- "The ...

The music from Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism sounds very modern. Despite this, one of the album’s creators explained how Motown songs inspired it. He picked out one Smokey Robinson tune in particular as ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Inspired by a lifetime of listening to Holland-Dozier-Holland’s songs, ...

Motown Records had a pop dominance stretching from Michigan to Milton Keynes, but one single stands out as the UK's all-time favourite Detroit soul anthem.

The ’60s saw several new musical movements. From the U.K. came a host of foreign heartthrobs in what was dubbed “The British Invasion,” with the forefathers of that movement being the Beatles. Their ...

Before Ethan Popp could land the job as musical supervisor and arranger for "Motown: The Musical," he had to meet the man in charge. The man who had been in charge for decades, in fact. When Popp ...

Barrett Strong, the vocalist known for giving Motown Records its first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want),” and for the songs he wrote for the Temptations, has died, Billboard and Rolling Stone ...