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Motown Legends Gather to Mourn Four Tops’ Stubbs

Motown Records patriarch Berry Gordy Jr. and hundreds of others attended Monday’s funeral for legendary Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose stirring baritone made the group one of the most recognizable in American music during the 1960s and into the ’70s.
“He made us walk in his shoes, felt what he felt and loved what he [...]

Motown Hitmaker Norman Whitfield Dies in L.A

Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield, who helped create some of the legendary label’s most important anthems, including Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died in Los Angeles, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The hitmaker died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday, said Motown [...]