Table of Contents
Foreword Greil Marcus 9
Introduction 13
Prologue 17
Chapter 1 The Gordys 19
Chapter 2 Gordy in the Ring 25
Chapter 3 Gordy in Transition 29
Chapter 4 The Gordy Family Sets up Shop 37
Chapter 5 Many Times 39
Chapter 6 The Motown Sound 45
Chapter 7 Starmaking Machinery 51
Chapter 8 Motown Pushes Forward 55
Chapter 9 The Motortown Revues 65
Chapter 10 Success 73
Chapter 11 Recruiting Gets Easier 83
Chapter 12 Motown Creates a Machine 89
Chapter 13 Motown Becomes a 'Conglamorate' 95
Chapter 14 Gordy Arrives 101
Chapter 15 Gordy and Ross 109
Chapter 16 Motown Moves and Changes 115
Chapter 17 Motown Goes Hollywood 121
Chapter 18 The Motown Plot 131
Chapter 19 Ups and Downs: Motown Branches Out 139
Chapter 20 Artists and Money 149
Chapter 21 Exodus 157
Chapter 21 Motown Matures 169
Chapter 23 Motown: The Seventies and Beyond 173
Afterword 175
Motown Top Twenty Hits: 1961-1971 177