Motown

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As young Michael, the empathetic Juliano Valdi makes us feel the loneliness of a boy in a Motown Records recording booth facing grown-up pressures to excel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

"There's a thing I miss in in pop music today, which is that kind of Motown feeling, that classic feeling, that analogue feeling," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"There's a there's a thing I miss in in pop music today, which is that kind of Motown feeling, that classic feeling, that analogue feeling," she told me last year.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Still, the book’s most profound revelation is the degree to which the story of Motown is the story of competing memories and subjective accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

How else would we see Motown groups, James Brown, or Aretha Franklin?

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia