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Berry Gordy: Motown Magician

Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982

Until recently little was known of Berry Gordy Jnr’s background. Such information as was available made no sense at all except on a romantic level, and Motown’s official version of its own origins is curiously blunt.

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