After splitting The Jam at their peak, Paul Weller reinvented himself with The Style Council, embracing soul, jazz, and pop on 'Café Bleu.' ...

Last year, Florence and the Machine released her fourth album High As Hope, a more restrained work from the typically gutsy artist. Today, she's sharing two songs that nearly made the final tracklist ...

Motown piano meets lo-fi indie in a charming collision held together with gentle Belfast tinged vocals and a backdrop of strings. It’s all very listenable stuff from the Jools Holland featured ‘hobo ...

DETROIT - During a summer visit to a Motown recording studio, former Beatle Paul McCartney wanted to run his fingers along an 1877 Steinway grand piano played by some Detroit music greats he considers ...

On Detroit’s west side, there’s a little house that transformed American culture and the music world at large. And so the Motown Museum has become a go-to destination for visitors from across the ...

The first home of Motown starting in 1959, this residential-looking former photographer's studio opened in 1985 as the museum. It contains the preserved Studio A, where Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, ...

As a singer he was a one-hit wonder. But teaming with Norman Whitfield, he wrote a string of hits for others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” By Neil Genzlinger Barrett Strong, whose ...

"Barrett was not only a great singer and piano player, but he, along with his writing partner Norman Whitfield, created an incredible body of work," said Berry Gordy in a statement Barrett Strong, the ...

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 ...

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 Norman ...

Barrett Strong, artist and songwriter credited with having given Motown its first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want),” has died. He was 81. Motown founder Berry Gordy confirmed Strong’s death in a ...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown Records‘ original hitmakers and the songwriter for “Money (That’s What I Want),” and many other soul classics, has died. He was 81. Strong is perhaps best known for his ...