The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...

From 1965 until 1985, Berry Gordy's little brother helped grow Jobete Music from a holding company for copyrights into a music publishing force. By Adam White Robert Louis Gordy, Sr., younger brother ...

Music mogul Berry Gordy celebrated his 96th birthday with a party teeming with Motown stars and other celebrities.

With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...

The Chairman has stepped down — and likely taken his final bow in Detroit. Berry Gordy, the Detroit native who built Motown Records from a shoestring operation into a music, film and television empire ...

DETROIT — The Motown mogul who launched the careers of numerous stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and Michael Jackson has announced his retirement. The Detroit Free Press reports Berry Gordy said ...

At the ripe old age of 89, Berry Gordy, who built Motown Records into a multimedia empire in the 1960s and 1970s, has announced his retirement. “I have come full circle,” he said onstage during Motown ...

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, the man who helped change popular music, has announced that he will be retiring. While in Detroit for Motown’s 60th anniversary program at Orchestra Hall, Gordy ...

In a glass-walled conference room above Sunset Boulevard, many of the living luminaries of the Motown Records empire gathered Monday to honor one of their own — the man responsible for launching more ...

Robert Bateman, the songwriter behind such Motown hits as "Please Mr. Postman" and "Playboy," died this morning in Sherman Oaks, Calif., of a massive heart attack. He was 80. Bateman, who still ...

One of the greatest songwriters ever, Smokey Robinson, looks back on his singular career in the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, breaking down his artistic process and telling ...