Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (part 6)

A Celebration Of Sound

Hitsville, it started here 25 years ago, the sound that rocked the world. Hitsville became Motown and Motown became our lives.
Hosted By Richard Pryor, this is a fast-paced, all-star reunion that spotlights performances by the biggest acts ever to come out of Detroit including vintage footage of the groups from the sixties and seventies. We look behind the scened into what made Motown tick, the songwriters who helped bring the Motown sound to fame and the man who started it all, the legendary, Berry Gordy.
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a celebration of the sound and the people who made it happen.

Featuring:
Adam Ant
Cindy Birdsong
Dick Clark
The Commodores
DeBarge
Jose Feliciano
Four Tops
Marvin Gaye
Howard Hesseman
High Inergy
The Jacksons
Jermaine Jackson
Michael Jackson
Rick James
The Miracles
John Moschitta, Jr.
Richard Pryor
Martha Reeves
Tim Reid
Lionel Richie
Smokie Robinson
Linda Ronstadt
Diana Ross
T.G. Sheppard
The Temptations
Jr. Walker
Mary Wells
Billy Dee Williams
The Lester Wilson Dancers
Mary Wilson
Stevie Wonder

Category:

Music

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• motown
• 25
• full
• concert

[gayboymotown]

You can tell at 8:45 that Berry was disgusted at Diana.

[TWTR4EVER]

Miss Passe made sure that the original footage of this events is well locked and kept on the vault as the Mary Wilson tribute to Florence Ballard was cut in the editing room and regarding Diane's last minute change of plans that had her doing three songs with Mary & Cindy as the most anticipated reunion of The Supremes was taking place she began the unmasking of the true "conning, backstabbing, self serving, deceitful" individual we know today!

[11kwright]

@betterlate00 Betterlate00, Idiot and no one care for your deep rooted conceited opinion . For your information Diana Ross's voice had a range most singers today still can't reach or touch. She would still blow the usual run of the mill away today as all of the Motown artist would because they had a solid foundation. She was not only a wow singer she was one brilliant actress - can you say that about most singers today, NO so get your facts right and don't speak from a jealous place.

[TWTR4EVER]

@betterlate00 Ms Mary Wilson as she's know today "THE QUINTESSENTIAL SUPREME" finally in that New York Times Best Seller "Dreamgirl, My Life As A Supreme" wrote the truth and truth frees you my friend!

Is so fitting that THE SUPREMES as they are "inducted" at The Rock & Roll Of Fame And Museum and not the Diane Ross & The Supremes CHARADE are considered "THE LEGACY" of the group in history!

[TWTR4EVER]

That "Golden Goose That Laid The Egg" that Richard Pryor talks about in his comedic monologue is Diane Ross and he didn't catch her, they catch each other and made the most UNHOLY alliance in Motown, the one that will turn friend into foe (Florence Ballard of THE SUPREMES out of her way & dispatched) manipulate and stagnate many talents produced BASTARD CHILDREN (Rhonda Silberstein Gordy Ross) quite a "Kingdom" Berry & Diane were running those days no doiubt?

[betterlate00]

@TWTR4EVER Mary wrote a scathing book after this reunion called Dream Girls and it put Diana Ross where she belonged....a backstabbing non talent that she was.

[betterlate00]

Diane was singer that could never in a million years survive todays world...why? She not only was a horrible singer, she didn't have talent.

[toyaflax]

david ruffin was on stage

[laminage]

@gayboymotown It's kind of sad knowing that so many people who were part of this Celebration are gone. Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Ronnie White of The Miracles whose wife Earliine died of Breast Cancer and he himself would die of Cancer, Three of The Original Four Tops, except Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Melvin Franklin of The Temptatoins as well as Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin (who were not inivted to do the special) Teena Marie, not to mention the Artists who died who were not acknowledged.

[laminage]

@gayboymotown He was more hurt. Remember she left Motown after 20 Years with the label, she didn't tell him she was leaving, he found out secondhand. He even said "That the reason why she was so successful at Motown was because she had a good team behind her and at RCA, she doesn't have that team." Those words would in many ways be prophetic since she hasn't had a Hit Record in Twenty Five Years. Also, she left since she only had $100.000.00 to her name when she left.