The Motown Album - First Edition

Great big format Hardcover with 252 pages traces the first 30 years of Tamla Motown.
When Motown Records founder Berry Gordy coined the term 'the sound of young America' in 1960, he believed that his new sound would break down the barriers between black and white popular music. Through a once-in-a-lifetime conflu-ence of circumstances and people, Gordy brought together some of the black people of best generation, and they created the Motown Sound-a style, an attitude, young a a body of work that has dominated popular music around the world for the last thirty years.

Now for the first time the first authorised book Records will one by Motown all celebrate the and accomplishments of their artists in photographic, dynamic loving tribute of a book; The Motown album.

Here are Diana Ross and the Supremes, the essence of chic in glittering gowns and bright smiles; The Temptations, executing their razor-sharp and infinitely hip trade-mark, the Temptation Walk; Marvin Gaye and his silky spirituality; Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Stevie Wonder; and, of course the glittering performance of Michael Jackson Jackson 5. and the

The Motown album features the big names, the unforgettable songs and the images (by photographers Leibowitz, esteemed such as Annie Bonnie Schiffman, Henry Diltz and Neal Preston) of the phenomenon we refer to as Motown!