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...annual interest, from King's royalties. Need references, Mr. King? In the past three years, Pullman Inc. has announced deals involving more than $200 million worth of bonds secured by the works of not only that Ziggy Stardust guy but also James Brown, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers and Motown songwriter trio Edward and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier...
...roll over. Detroit wasn't going to let some meddling bureaucrats potentially gut its sacred cash cow, the wildly popular and profitable sport-utility vehicles (SUVS). But by last week, as the estimated death toll in the Firestone- tire recall debacle rose to 101, it became increasingly clear to Motown's allies in Washington that the battle had turned against them...
Sometimes you can see the crash coming before the train leaves the station. Not only was Diana Ross going on tour after years of ignoring her core audience. She was also going out with a Supremes reconstituted from Motown slurry, with the best seats priced at $500 a pair. Sure enough, the Supremes' Return to Love tour derailed last week after 14 dates, many played to half-empty houses. Ross released a statement claiming that tour promoter SFX had canceled the remaining shows, while SFX, which is reportedly paying Ross $20 million, begged to differ, claiming that only certain shows...
...away tickets to cabdrivers and hotel employees to help kick-start the buzz. It worked: the show is doing better than 90% of capacity, and surveys reveal that more than 20% of those who attend are locals--who don't come to the Strip for just any washed-up Motown...
...rock 'n' roll, thus "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...