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Radiohead's First London Show In Four Years Showed Them At Their Most Human

Edit NME 27 May 2016
Somewhere between Thom Yorke's "Not!" joke and the way he teases Jonny Greenwood for flubbing the intro to 'Nude', something becomes clear. Radiohead are more playful, more human, than we've seen them in years. It's the fifth date on the band's world tour, their first of three at London's Roundhouse ... Tonight, Thom Yorke jokes they may have gone too far, declaring the set "a bit too hitsville. Or… non-hitsville" before the second encore ... ....

Brierley Hill Civic Soul night

Edit Skiddle 21 May 2016
Brierley Hill Civic Hall in Brierley Hill. Saturday 21st May 2016. 8.00pm til 1.00am (last entry 1.00am). Minimum Age. 18. The famous Brierley Hall Civic in the heart of the West Midlands. Event Info. Venue.   ... Stunning venue! ... Hitsville Chalky (101.8 WCR-FM), Little Scotty (West Midlands Kingspinner), Ozz(Kings Hall Stoke) John Barker (Torquay Weekender), Jellybean (Wolverhampton Stables), Gary Parker (West Midlands spinner) ... DY5 3DA ... 18 ... ....

Usher in Detroit, visits Motown Museum, Eastern Market

Edit Detroit news 18 May 2016
The 37-year-old singer posted two photos on Instagram on the steps of the iconic Hitsville U.S.A on West Grand Boulevard and a Snapchat outside the museum and inside Studio A, where Motown legends Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye recorded hits. (Usher is reportedly a Wonder and Gaye fan.) ... in Detroit ... @Steph_Steinberg. ....

'Motown The Musical' packs the house at the Times Union

Edit The Examiner 22 Apr 2016
Motown the Musical is that good!. There are storylines that tell of the history of Motown (Hitsville USA), the musical acts that were birthed from the motor-city, the romance between a record producer and one of his singers (just like in Dreamgirls), and the struggles of building an empire, are all portrayed in this amazing musical ... If you have a good voice and want to sing with Ms Ross, you may have an opportunity ... Now that’s talent!....

Prince the businessman: a raconteur who bent the music industry to his will

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
The musician’s resolve to make music on his own terms saw a career peppered with commercial disputes – many of which now seem remarkably prescient ... Related. Prince. a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent ... Twitter ... Much like Graceland, Abbey Road and Hitsville USA, this was Prince’s true fiefdom, where he could create music entirely on his own terms and develop the musicians and performers he believed best reached his exacting standards....

Old Records Never Die review: exploring the real High Fidelity

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
Eric Spitznagel’s account of a chase for old albums ends up as a tale of a midlife crisis, albeit one which sadly neglects to notice that women, too, love vinyl ... sold throughout the 90s when “selling records was a victimless crime”, for beer money, tacos and Trader Joe’s wine (all six Clash albums – including the Hitsville 7-inch! – paid for a “a week of groceries at the liquor store down the block”) ... It’s time to play grown-up ... ....

Local poets compete in Hitsville U.S.A.’s Motown Mic

Edit Detroit news 18 Apr 2016
Around the corner, Berry Gordy once sat on the orange couch in his living room. A few feet above, Michael Jackson once sang in the square echo chamber in the ceiling ... When they grasped the mic, the birthplace of Motown faded away ... The Motown Museum, also known as Hitsville U.S.A, started the open mic series three years ago as a way for contemporary artists to “pay homage to their predecessors,” says program manager and poet Rena Baker ... ....

The Soul Hole with DJs Mazzy & Chalky + Chris Wise

Edit Skiddle 02 Apr 2016
The Night Owl in Birmingham. Saturday 2nd April 2016. 9.00pm til 4.00am (last entry 3.00am). Minimum Age. 18 ... Event Info. Venue.   ... The dance floor will be filled by DJs. ... Chalky (The voice of Wolverhampton 101.8fm Hitsville Chalky) ... ....

'Motown the Musical' opens tonight at the Stranahan

Edit The Examiner 29 Mar 2016
“Motown the Musical” opens today, Tuesday, March 29 at 7.30 p.m. and runs through April 3 at the Stranahan Theater in Toledo, Ohio ... In 1959, Gordy borrowed $800 to setup “Hitsville U.S.A.” his headquarters in a house in Detroit. By 1960 his recording enterprise, Motown Records, had its first hit song ... “Motown the Musical” depicts Gordy’s struggle to create music for everyone ... 1 ... ....

Motown the Musical review – Berry Gordy show is a ball of confusion

Edit The Guardian 08 Mar 2016
2 / 5 stars. Shaftesbury theatre, London. The show’s 50 songs are put across with plenty of pizzazz but this account of the music mogul’s rags-to-riches story leaves the key questions unanswered. @billicritic ... But, eager as I am as the next person to learn more about the Motown mogul, I was disappointed at how little I discovered ... the Motown pop empire which began modestly in a Detroit house famously dubbed “Hitsville, USA” ... Facebook ... ....

The night Nelson’s Pillar fell and changed Dublin

Edit The Irish Times 05 Mar 2016
March 1966. The Sixties are getting groovier. The war in Vietnam is intensifying. Eleanor Rigby and 19th Nervous Breakdown are in the UK charts (though you won’t hear them very often on Ireland’s single national radio station, Radio Éireann). “The big hitsville happening right now is the lithe, lissom linen kick like they’re swinging it at Bolger’s” reads a magazine ad for a clothes shop on North Earl Street ... Regret and humour ...  . ....

How we made Dancing in the Street

Edit The Guardian 09 Feb 2016
Martha Reeves. ‘Marvin Gaye saw me ogling him and said. “How about we try Martha on this song?” It became the Motown anthem’. Martha Reeves, singer. The British press thought it was about rioting. How can 'Every guy, grab a girl' be about anything but dancing? ... It had the names of all their stars on it. the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells ... getting to Hitsville meant crossing Woodland Avenue, where all the gangs were ... Related ... I added ... ....

Map of Motown: the sites that made the legendary Detroit label

Edit The Guardian 13 Dec 2015
Berry Gordy’s label reshaped pop forever, and this guide highlights the spots around the Motor City that were home to his biggest stars ... Today the building at 2648 W Grand Boulevard is a museum that preserves, not just the label’s story, but also artefacts, founder Berry Gordy’s second-floor apartment, and the rear studio, dubbed Hitsville USA, which still has the candy machine intact in the hallway. Related ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter ... ....
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