He came back to Motown in 1978, joined GM and established a reputation for unconventional ideas.
Webb got his start in the music business as a staff songwriter for Motown.
It all happened very fast -- within a couple years of the Motown special.
Billy Wilson of the Motown Alumni Association paid tribute to Tarplin as The Miracles' "secret weapon".
At 16, he was working at Motown, and at 18, Webb considered himself a professional songwriter.
Motown and funk are just a few of the styles employed elsewhere on the record.
Each week, Mr. Robinson had to run the same gantlet as Motown's other writers.
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In 2006, Hudson took a supporting role in the film adaptation of the Motown musical Dreamgirls.
Motown vocalist Richard Street, a member of the Temptations for 25 years, has died aged 70.
With the end of apartheid in 1994 Mr Dube became a world star, signed by Motown.
"Motown: The Musical" makes frequent, exuberant use of dance for the label's star performers and the ensemble.
No one flying into Motown last year could miss the fields of unsold Jeeps and Ram pickups.
But even at the time of the "Motown 25" moonwalk, fame was old hat to Michael Jackson.
Might she later join her groupmates for a reunion tour, as Jackson did after Motown 25?
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Jermaine left the group when the four other members left record label Motown to sign with Epic records.
Labels included under the Universal umbrella are Def Jam, Motown, Decca, Island Records, Interscope Records and Polydor Records.
Marv Tarplin, Motown guitarist with Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, has died at his Las Vegas home aged 70.
Amid the wall-to-wall music, the musical presents the Motown roster as a family.
The group went on to record Motown's first million-selling hit single, Shop Around.
He also wrote hits for stars including Teddy Pendergrass, The O'Jays and his first wife, Motown singer Mary Wells.
My mother always pranced around to Diana Ross and the Supremes - a bit of Motown always cheers me up.
He said Mr. Gordy wanted to tell his version of Motown story and that of his history with Diana Ross.
Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.
Berry Gordy's Motown label took over Tri-Phi in 1965, but the group struggled to make a big impact on the charts.
The lifetime achievement award was given to the legendary Detroit record label Motown, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary next year.
Their music was the nourishing ocean that Motown's biggest fish swam in.
Bobby Rogers, a founding member of the Motown group The Miracles along with Smokey Robinson, has died in the US aged 73.
Jackson also starred in "Diana, " produced in 1981 by Diana Ross Productions -- her first TV special not produced by Motown Productions.
"Berry and I are competitive, but this show has nothing to do with that the group is just doing Motown songs, " he said.
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Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's biggest independent, black-owned record label, and for a time, it was bigger than Motown.
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