Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the legendary Motown group the Four Tops, has died after retiring from the group earlier this month. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the stylish and genteel singer who nurtured the Four Tops’ legacy for seven decades, has died. He was 88.

A member of the iconic Motown group The Four Tops was labeled “delusional” and put into a straitjacket after entering a Michigan hospital. The singer, Alexander Morris, is now suing the hospital ...

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New York — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of ...

Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops will perform at Atlanta's Fox Theatre this Saturday, May 10. The groups are celebrating 60 years of blockbuster hits and 40 years of joint touring. "My ...

Sometimes it just feels good to sing, to belt out familiar lyrics into the clear, blue sky. Human beings were made for music, made to sing. Music resonates with our bones, right down to our cells. It ...

In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...

Like millions of people, Tarsha Fitzgerald grew up listening to the sounds of Motown in her living room and especially enjoyed holiday time, when her parents would play some of the top Motown artists ...

Bertha Barbee McNeal, who co-founded Motown’s Velvelettes, known for their songs “Needle in a Haystack” and “(He Was) Really Saying Something,” died Thursday, in hospice, in Kalamazoo. She was 82.

CCAE Theatricals is best known for its high-quality musical theater productions that have won multiple awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle in recent years. But three-quarters of the ...