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The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, 1985)
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harrisonarchive · 27 days
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With Motown’s Berry Gordy and one of his children; photo by Dezo Hoffmann.
“Tamla Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. The Impressions. Marvin Gaye. The Exciters.” - George Harrison, The Beatles’ Detroit press conference, September 6, 1964 “I’ve always liked Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue With George Harrison At 33 & 1/3, 1976 “We [The Beatles] always loved those American girls groups, like the Shirelles and the Ronettes. So yeah, we developed our harmonies from trying to come up with an English, male version of their vocal feel. We discovered the option of having three-part harmonies, or lead vocal and two-part backup, from doing that old girl-group material. We even covered some of those songs, like ‘Baby, It’s You,’ on our first album.” - George Harrison, Guitar World, 1992, published January 2001 (x)
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singonavine71 · 8 months
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Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye
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forever70s · 1 month
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Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records and songwriter - circa 1970s
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citizenscreen · 3 months
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On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit. #OnThisDay 🎼
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The Fashion Designs of Diana Ross
From casual to high fashion, Diana Ross created 50 outfits as the costume designer for Berry Gordy's 1975-directed film, Mahogany, where Diana also portrays the lead character, Tracy Chambers, an aspiring fashion designer from Chicago who finds success as a supermodel.
In a 1976 interview, Diana stated:
"I begged to design the clothes [in Mahogany] because in high school I majored in fashion design and costume illustration. I had a pretty good background in that. That’s what I thought I wanted to be. Singing was fun for me. I enjoy doing it. Then when the movie came along, I said: ‘That would be great research for me to do the movie. I could spend time finding exactly what a designer has to go through to make a collection.’"
After convincing Berry, Diana went on to commit 8 months to researching and completing those 50 designs. For the looks in the Asian-inspired fashion show at the end of the film, Diana was inspired by little paper kites she saw in a shop in Los Angeles.
Here's more of her costume illustrations, which she included in her 1977 concert program, An Evening With Diana:
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She looks so good 🔥
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chaptertwo-thepacnw · 7 months
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diana ross, mahogany |1975|
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frenchcurious · 11 months
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Diana Ross à l'aéroport municipal de Reno avec sa Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Drophead Coupé, 1970, cadeau de Berry Gordy de Motown Records qui l’attendais à l’aéroport. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.
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citizenscreen · 4 months
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Happy birthday to producer, director, entrepreneur and founder of Motown, Berry Gordy. The list of talent he discovered is staggering.
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